English Dictionary

spit

/spɪt/

verb

(transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough. / (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.

He spit out his gum and stuck it under the table.

意味（1）

(transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.

[T]he double plough, by taking faſt hold of the mould, throws all back again; and if the vegetables are not effectually earthed up, which may be the caſe after double ſpitting the intervals, then running the double plough over again, completes the buſineſs, and ſtrangely toſſes about and mellows the mould.

意味（2）

(transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.

When the [peach] seed is procured it is either spitted in with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.

意味（3）

(intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.

We left the ground, of field of loam, by ſuppoſition under two ſorts of managements; the one part very rough, and the other made as fine as circumſtances would allow; the former ploughed the uſual depth, the other double ſpitted; …