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Dibble   /dˈɪbəl/   Listen
Dibble

noun
1.
A wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs.  Synonym: dibber.






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"Dibble" Quotes from Famous Books



... were familiarly known, the one as "Aunt Rushia," and the other as "Rushia." Many of the store customers were hatters, and among the many kinds of furs sold for the nap of hats was one known to the trade as "Russia." One day a hatter, Walter Dibble, called to buy some furs. Barnum sold him several kinds, including "beaver" and "cony," and he then asked for some "Russia." They had none, and as Barnum wanted to play a joke upon him, he told him that Mrs. Wheeler had ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton

... and looked at Younkins as he said, "A dibble, my lambs, is an instrument for the planting of corn. With it in one hand you punch a hole in the sod that has been turned over, and then, with the other hand, you drop in three or four grains of corn from the corn-dropper, cover it with your heel, ...
— The Boy Settlers - A Story of Early Times in Kansas • Noah Brooks

... Fairfax family at Fewstone in 1621, five had domestic familiars: Margaret Waite's was 'a deformed thing with many feet, black of colour, rough with hair, the bigness of a cat'; her daughter, Margaret Waite, had as 'her spirit, a white cat spotted with black, and named Inges'; Jennet Dibble had 'her spirit in the shape of a great black cat called Gibbe, which hath attended her now above 40 years'; Dibble's daughter, Margaret Thorpe, had a 'familiar in the shape of a bird, yellow of colour, about the bigness of ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray

... "You see, when I was a young man I sociate wid da best company in de country. I members de time when General Wayne (dey called him Mad Antony cause he fight so like de dibble) say afore de whole army dat haansome fellow—meaning me—look like anoder Anibal (Anibal I guess was a French General). Ah," sighed Primus, "dey made more 'count ob colored pussons den, ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams



Words linked to "Dibble" :   dig, set, plant, hand tool, dig out



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