English Dictionary

spit

IPA（発音記号）

/spɪt/

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

鋤の刃が土に食い込む深さ、またはその深さ分の土層 / 鋤が保持する土、すなわち一掘り分の土

Before planting, she measured the spit to make sure the seedlings' roots would reach the moist soil.

植え付ける前に、彼女はスコップの刃が土に入る深さを測って、苗の根が湿った土に届くか確認した。

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, …

spits （ plural ）