Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mode of cultivating the soil and improving it by means of deep digging with the spade instead of using the subsoil-plow.
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Examples
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But I am surprised that the economists, who have so clearly shown the disadvantages of spade-husbandry, have failed to see that it is caused entirely by property; above all, that they have not perceived that their plan for mobilizing the soil is a first step towards the abolition of property.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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I will close my talk upon the Bible by offering a specimen of such spade-husbandry.
To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880
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Then, practise also a diligent _spade-husbandry_ in your Bible study.
To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880
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No doubt Cyril Carey would be glad to have Ned's chance; Cyril, who had renounced his delicate plush vests and Indian gold chains and charms, his loitering and dawdling, and taken to a shabby shooting-suit and spade-husbandry.
A Houseful of Girls Sarah Tytler 1870
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The investment of small savings in land with a view to spade-husbandry, was a few years ago brought prominently before the working-classes.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 Various 1841
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