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 saw you always used the right leg to jam down the dibble with, and then you kicked the hole full with the right heel.
From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
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
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 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
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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
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
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
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
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 Fay-Cooper Cole
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.
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
