dibble
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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dibbles,
present (3rd person singular)
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dibbled,
past participle, past
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dibbling
present participle
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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)
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dibbles,
present (3rd person singular)
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dibbled,
past participle, past
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dibbling
present participle
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
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
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
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
Many gardeners like to use a dibble for transplanting.
From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains
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
As to the wooden dibbles, see Ella, op. cit. p.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
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
So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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
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
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
An’ if so, for the life o’ ye, ye mustn’t tell him who it was we dibbled into the ground up thar.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
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
Rather, like gardeners, they seem to cultivate them, pressing and dibbling as required.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
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
They would follow the dibbling machine, taking each grain of seed-wheat in succession, guided to the exact spot by the slight depression made by the dibble.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
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