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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



... apples would I gather from the tree, Till thou hadst cool'd their cheeks deliciously: 150 No tumbling water ever spake romance, But when my eyes with thine thereon could dance: No woods were green enough, no bower divine, Until thou liftedst up thine eyelids fine: In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, Or drop a seed, till thou wast wide awake; And, in the summer tide of blossoming, No one but thee hath heard me blithly sing And mesh my dewy flowers all the night. No melody was like a passing spright 160 If it went not to solemnize thy reign. Yes, in my boyhood, every joy and pain ...
— Endymion - A Poetic Romance • John Keats
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... Sister Mary John without further words told her she was to go in front with the dibble and make holes for the potatoes, for an absent-minded person could not be trusted with the seed potatoes— she would be sure to break the shoots. The next week they were engaged in sowing French beans and scarlet runners, and Evelyn thought it rather unreasonable of the sister to expect her to know ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
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Words linked to "Dibble" :   dig out, dibber, set, hand tool, dig, plant


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