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
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
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
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 therefore warn every dibble user to be sure to crowd over the soil well, especially at the lower end of the hole.
From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)
He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
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 Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
As to the wooden dibbles, see Ella, op. cit. p.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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Like the wheat it was planted or dibbled in rows.
They are dibbled thickly into one of the ditches, and only enough water admitted to just cover the soil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
Now, it is doubtful if the whole region thus dibbled with this tree-crop yielded an average rental of one English shilling per acre as a pasturage for sheep.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu
An’ if so, for the life o’ ye, ye mustn’t tell him who it was we dibbled into the ground up thar.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
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
When all the world is askew, dibbling in seedlings in straight rows is a wonderful solace.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
Rather, like gardeners, they seem to cultivate them, pressing and dibbling as required.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
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 Marsden, William