dibble
noun
Also dibber a small, handheld, pointed implement for making holes in soil for planting seedlings, bulbs, etc.
dibbled
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past participleof dibble.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dibble.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dibblenounAlso dibber a small, handheld, pointed implement for making holes in soil for planting seedlings, bulbs, etc.
Example Sentences
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So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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
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
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
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
