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)
Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
He trolls for fish, and he trolls his lay— He sniggles by night, and he dibbles by day.
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)
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 Marsden, William
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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
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
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 Wood, John
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 Salisbury, William
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
He is now dibbling in the potato-sets, and cannot be spared.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus
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
A considerable amount is raised in the village gardens, but generally it is planted by dibbling in the high land.
From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Cole, Fay-Cooper
