dibble
noun
Also dibber a small, handheld, pointed implement for making holes in soil for planting seedlings, bulbs, etc.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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How you would have dibbled down, if your daddles hadn’t held on.”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat