Spuddle

Quick meaning: Spuddle is a verb meaning To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device.

Meaning

To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, chiefly dialect) To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.
2. A mess or confusion.
3. An argument or dispute.
4. A patch of wet mud or similar substance, more viscous than a puddle.
5. A process combining spraying and puddling.
6. (obsolete, Southern England) To make a lot of fuss about trivial things, as if they were important
7. (obsolete) To work ineffectively; to work hard but achieve nothing

Example Sentences

Leviathan fouls and spuddles again my possessions and my father's house

And they say that in the very place where the child spuddled with his feet, the water flowed out.

Hee grubs and spuddles for his prey in muddy holes and obscure cauernes, my Mufe ferrits base debaushed wretches in their swinish dens.

When land proves to be very foul after harvest, it is best, first to shallow, spuddle, or broadshare the surface, harrow up the weeds, cart them to a mixen, or burn them on the spot:

Word Forms

• spuddles
• spuddling
• spuddled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spud, spittle, plowter, spade, spit, trench-plow.

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