dibble
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Before I understood how to use my options properly, I used to dibble and dabble with my childhood favorite, Duncan Hines.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2024
He picked up an orange metal bar known as a dibble, made a small hole in the bare, orange dirt and put the tree in.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
The volunteers fanned out over the muddy ground, each pair armed with a dibble bar and a bucket of seedlings.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
But I personally like to dibble and dabble and help my teammates make plays, and at the same time make plays myself.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2015
I'll not put The dibble in earth to set one slip of them; No more than were I painted, I would wish This youth should say 'twere well.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
As to the wooden dibbles, see Ella, op. cit. p.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
Digits existed long before dibbles and they are much more reliable.
From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains
With a sharpened hook, and a sharper eye, He sniggles and dibbles for what comes by, Oh, who so merry as he!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
By Thomas Moore I'm a careless potato, and care not a pin How into existence I came; If they planted me drill-wise, or dibbled me in, To me 'tis exactly the same.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
They may be either set in a trench, or dibbled into a specially prepared bed.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
So choice a garden subject should not be passed by because it cannot be dibbled in and grown as easily as a cabbage.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
I find, however, that it is much slower in increasing itself; the best way to propagate it is by cuttings dibbled into sand in early summer.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
Antetokounmpo was pulled by first-year coach Adrian Griffin after a dibbling violation.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Having earlier dismissed his use as moderate dibbling and dabbling, he tells me: “I’ll be completely honest with you. The past couple of albums, I do get back to that.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2016
It may be propagated by cutting the roots into pieces 5 or 6 in. long, and dibbling them into light soil.
From Gardening for the Million by Alfred Pink
When all the world is askew, dibbling in seedlings in straight rows is a wonderful solace.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
The expense of dibbling, dropping, and covering is reckoned in Norfolk at about six shillings per acre.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden
