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To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device. / (by extension, chiefly dialect) To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.

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spuddle

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spuddle

Verb

broadly dialectal Southern-England obsolete

To loosen and dig up stubble and weeds left after a harvest with a broadshare or similar device. / (by extension, chiefly dialect) To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.

Japanese Meaning

収穫後に残った藁や雑草を、広い耕耘機などで緩め、掘り起こすこと。 / 拡張的な意味として、体系的でなく浅い掘り起こしやかき混ぜる行為を指す。

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After harvest, farmers spuddle the fields to break up the stubble and control weeds before winter.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

収穫後、農家は幅広の鋤などで株や雑草をほぐして掘り起こし、冬に備えて畑の雑草を抑えます。

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

Do you shim those stubbles before ploughing? Answer. No; but I spuddle them, to make the ground as clean as possible. Spuddling is performed with the plough, and is of the nature of shiming.

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(by extension, chiefly dialect) To shallowly dig or stir up in an unsystematic manner.

Instead of an "occasional gardener" to trim up the walks, and to hoe, your wife will be as happy as a queen, and your daughters as princesses, to spuddle about now and then, and have little flower gardens, and herb beds.

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(obsolete, Southern England) To make a lot of fuss about trivial things, as if they were important

During all the years that I spuddled around in a porcelain bath tub in a city I was given to regarding the farmer somewhat as the caricaturist, who wears his spring overcoat all winter and sells jokes for 10 cents each to the newspapers, painted him.

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