dibble

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

Many gardeners like to use a dibble for transplanting.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

After dinner, we will make some dibbles for you boys, for you must begin to drop corn to-morrow.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers

The man who dibbles is to move backwards and to be followed by two or three women or children, who drop in the grains.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

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

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

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

The seeds are sometimes dibbled in rows, so as to leave the plants a foot apart each way.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

The cuttings should then be dibbled into the boxes in rows, just clear, the soil being gently pressed around each.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

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

Rather, like gardeners, they seem to cultivate them, pressing and dibbling as required.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

Drills are easy to draw, and are better for the bulbs than the objectionable plan of dibbling.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons

And when we went to fetch him hame, He was dibbling in his kail-yairdie.'

From Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford