Spit

Spit: The depth of one spade's blade.
Spore: The reproductive equivalent of a seed produced by ferns, fungi and mosses.
Sport: See mutation.

spit
in reference to digging, it describes the soil taken out of the earth to one spade or fork's depth.

White spit like stuff on my Helenium My Helenium has a milky substance pooling at the site where a few of the leaves and stems meet. It is white and feels like spit. The plant is located ...

The machines can also spit out debris in a fine spray that moves at high speed. Wear clothes that are snug around your arms and legs, and tuck in your shirt. This will help keep your clothing out of the machine, and it will keep you safe.

Damage: Looks as though someone has spit on the plant. Plants look fine otherwise.
Time of damage: Summer; varies with species.
The pest: A small insect, sometimes called a froghopper, sucks plant juices.

Every now and then you'll see a clump of foam on one of your plants that looks like someone spit on it. Close. It's probably the spittlebug at work. The actual bug is very tiny and he's hiding from predators under this mass of froth.

Do you sometimes think someone spit on your plants? Look closely, and you'll notice some remarkable things about that frothy mass hanging from leaves or stems. The froth doesn't dry up -- it remains on the plant for weeks at a time.

For a kick, my friends and I used to dare each other to eat the honeysuckle flowers off the neighbors' shrub, just so we could make rude faces at each other and spit.

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens rests on a spit of land jutting into Sarasota Bay, surrounded by deep blue tropical waters.

The barrier beach pool is a shallow lagoon formed inland from the barrier beach. 2. A sand spit beach pool is a shallow lagoon, generally S-shaped, that is inland from a sand spit, most often on the protected side of a headland.

Last week, I found myself in need of a new lawn mower, and considering that gas mowers spit out as much pollution per hour as driving 250 miles in a car, I was ready to make a change.

Dig out trenches to a spade's depth, known as a 'spit', and about 30cm (12in) wide.
Place the soil from the first trench on the ground in front and work backwards along the plot, turning the soil from each subsequent trench into the one in front.

One possibility is that it comes from the Middle English word 'dag,' referring to a wooden spit made from a shrubby dogwood native to England. These spits were sold on the streets for cooking meat over an open flame.

Abercrombie recommends a mould or compost of the following materials. One-third of rich top spit earth, from an upland pasture, one-half of vegetable mould, and one-sixth of well decomposed horse dung, with a small quantity of sand.

The most commonly practiced form of digging cultivates the soil to the depth of a spade blade (called a spit), usually about 25-30cm (10-12in) deep.

Of course, Gargoyles aren't for everyone. Some prefer cherubs and frogs that spit water, but give me the big, bad dragon looking stuff any day. I'm a big fan of gargoyles and their lore.

" More apt words have rarely been written about this 23-mile-long spit of land off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts.

For instance, to evoke the feeling of Amanohashidate, which is a narrow, pine-covered spit of land arcing across a wide bay, all that was needed was one pine tree planted on a short peninsula in a pond, edged with some well-placed boulders.

The flavor ranges from intensely sweet to mild to bitter - anyone who's tasted a shot of wheatgrass knows just how sweet grass can be. Grass that's over 6" can either be chewed for juice and spit out, ...

They send water shooting into the air, creating a mushroom type of effect. You can also attach the hose to ceramic frogs and turtles, which will "spit" water into the middle of the pond.

disconnect myself emotionally from what I put into the garden. And as a consequence I feel it all. Continuing to try and garden through this feels like I am playing a hand in my own abuse. It's like I am standing on the street and waiting to be spit ...

See also: Water, Natural, Genera, Plant, Flower