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 small kind of pumpkins which are very productive they plant with a dibble, and raise the ground into hillocks the same as those about Indian corn.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

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 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

Digits existed long before dibbles and they are much more reliable.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

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

So choice a garden subject should not be passed by because it cannot be dibbled in and grown as easily as a cabbage.

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

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

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

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

Rather, like gardeners, they seem to cultivate them, pressing and dibbling as required.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

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