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

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'll not put The dibble in the earth to set one slip of them.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.

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

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

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

Like the wheat it was planted or dibbled in rows.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

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

By Thomas Moore  I'm a careless potato, and care not a pin      How into existence I came;  If they planted me drill-wise, or dibbled me in,      To me 'tis exactly the same.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

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

The grain is sown in the middle of the dry season, either broadcast or by dibbling, and reaped in seven or five months, as the grain happens to be the larger or the smaller variety.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

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

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

From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir