dibble
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to make a hole (in the ground) with or as if with a dibble.
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to set (plants) in holes made with a dibble.
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
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to make a hole in (the ground) with a dibble
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to plant (bulbs, seeds, etc) with a dibble
noun
Other Word Forms
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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dibblesimple
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dibblessimple
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have dibbledperfect
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has dibbledperfect
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am dibblingprogressive
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are dibblingprogressive
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is dibblingprogressive
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have been dibblingperfect progressive
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has been dibblingperfect progressive
Past
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dibbledsimple
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had dibbledperfect
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was dibblingprogressive
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were dibblingprogressive
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had been dibblingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of dibble
1325–75; late Middle English, perhaps akin to dib
Example Sentences
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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
For this purpose make holes in the top of the bed about six inches apart and two inches deep with a blunt dibble or broom handle.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
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 Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)
With a sharpened hook, and a sharper eye, He sniggles and dibbles for what comes by, Oh, who so merry as he!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
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
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
How you would have dibbled down, if your daddles hadn’t held on.”
From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick
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 Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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
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
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 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 Marsden, William
Rather, like gardeners, they seem to cultivate them, pressing and dibbling as required.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
When all the world is askew, dibbling in seedlings in straight rows is a wonderful solace.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
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