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

A dibble, my lambs, is an instrument for the planting of corn.

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

He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

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

A bed of dwarf and moisture-loving subjects was being planted, in which a bit of this Hutchinsia was dibbled, and it found a home in the moist vegetable soil.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood

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

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

The season for sowing barley is in the spring, and the crop varies according to soil and culture; it is sown either broad-cast, drilled, or dibbled.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury

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

A tiny rivulet of water trickled over the stones, and two or three ducks were dibbling with yellow bills among the miniature boulders.

From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The ground is turned up with the mattock, and the seed planted by dibbling between the stumps of trees.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

A few anglers still practise the old style of dapping or "dibbling" after the manner advised by Izaak Walton.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various