dibble
noun
Also dibber a small, handheld, pointed implement for making holes in soil for planting seedlings, bulbs, etc.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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And when we went to fetch him hame, He was dibbling in his kail-yairdie.'
From Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford