English Dictionary

spit

/spɪt/

noun

The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. / The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.

He wiped the spit off his face.

意味（1）

The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.

They [the potatoes] ſtood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with ſtraw and a ſpit of earth.

意味（2）

The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.

Dig your clay with a ſpade in ſpits of ordinary bricks; dig two, three, eight, ten or twenty loads of clay, more or leſs as you pleaſe; … then take theſe ſpits of clay, after they are tried in the ſun, ſurround your pile of wood with them, …