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
Say, daddy, you cannot think how tired my leg is with the punching of that dibble into the sod; seems as if I couldn’t hold out till sundown; but I suppose I shall.
From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
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
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
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 W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
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
Now, it is doubtful if the whole region thus dibbled with this tree-crop yielded an average rental of one English shilling per acre as a pasturage for sheep.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
Like the wheat it was planted or dibbled in rows.
How you would have dibbled down, if your daddles hadn’t held on.”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
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
It may be propagated by cutting the roots into pieces 5 or 6 in. long, and dibbling them into light soil.
From Gardening for the Million by Alfred Pink
When all the world is askew, dibbling in seedlings in straight rows is a wonderful solace.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
Sir Hugh Platt, as we have seen, had before suggested dibbling, and Worlidge had contrived a drill; but Tull gave force and point and practical efficacy to their suggestions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
