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
They do not plough it, but dibble the corn in without cleaning it, as the burning straw destroys the roots of all the weeds.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
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
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
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 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
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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
They may be either set in a trench, or dibbled into a specially prepared bed.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
Cuttings of border chrysanthemums may now be dibbled in a warm spot out of doors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
These were dibbled in the autumn of the same year, the produce sown broadcast the second and third years, and the fourth harvest produced forty quarters of sound grain.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832 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
And when we went to fetch him hame, He was dibbling in his kail-yairdie.'
From Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford
Leucophyton Browni.—A popular white-foliaged bedding plant, which may be increased by dibbling cuttings in sandy soil and placing them in a cool frame.
From Gardening for the Million by Alfred Pink
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
