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
Put the plant in its place, thrust the dibble down at a sharp angle with the plant, and below it, and move it up to it.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
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 Wells, Carolyn
He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Digits existed long before dibbles and they are much more reliable.
From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)
As to the wooden dibbles, see Ella, op. cit. p.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
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 Wood, John
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
How you would have dibbled down, if your daddles hadn’t held on.”
From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick
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 Salisbury, William
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
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 Pink, Alfred
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.
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
