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
Transplant with your hand, a transplanting trowel, a stick, or a dibble made of a spade-handle, one foot long, sharpened off abruptly, and the eye left on for a handle.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
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
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
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
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 William Salisbury
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
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
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
He then describes the three methods of broadcast, drilling, and dibbling, and gives a decided preference of the last, though it be the most laborious.
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 ground is turned up with the mattock, and the seed planted by dibbling between the stumps of trees.
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