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
Dear me! don’t I wish I was going out after buffalo, instead of having to dibble corn into the sod all day!
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
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
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 Wells, Carolyn
He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
They may be either set in a trench, or dibbled into a specially prepared bed.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Kingsley, Rose Georgina
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
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 Burr, Fearing
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
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
As the persons figured below the text appear to be planting seed by dibbling them in with a stick, this would seem to be an appropriate rendering.
