Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pointed gardening implement used to make holes in soil, especially for planting bulbs or seedlings.
- transitive verb To make holes in (soil) with a pointed implement.
- transitive verb To plant by means of a pointed implement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plant with a dibble, or to make holes in for planting seeds, etc.; make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
- noun A pointed tool, often merely a short, stout, pointed stick, used in gardening and agriculture to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs, setting out plants, etc.
- To dip or let the bait fall gently into the water, as in angling.
- noun A planting implement which carries the seed in the handle and drops it from the point by means of a slide, when inserted in the earth.
- noun A pair of wheels drawn by a horse, and furnished with cogs which make holes for seed: used in cotton-planting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
- transitive verb To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
- transitive verb To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
- intransitive verb To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pointed implement used to makeholes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. Also known as adibber . - noun slang the
police or one or morepolice officers (from the character of Officer Dibble in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat) - verb To make holes, or plant seeds, using a dibble.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a hole with a wooden hand tool
- noun a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
- verb plant with a wooden hand tool
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dildo is first attested at the end of the 16th century in English, dibble about 150 years earlier.
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Ideal containers for leucaena are the reusable polyurethane pots called dibble tubes (Figure 4-2), which are 2.5 cm in diameter and 15 cm in length.
Chapter 6 1985
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There is much less danger of leaving a hole with the flat than with the round dibble, which is almost sure to leave a hole beneath the plant.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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The dibble is a good instrument to use in dotting bulbs around the turf.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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Becky Zalmonowsky stood so closely over the lake that she shed the chatelaine bag into its shallow depths and did irreparable damage to her gala costume in her attempts to "dibble" for her property.
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The "dibble" (I thought he was the cop in Boss Cat) you refer to doesn't really have any Marxist reference Ethan and no, I do not have any problem with the ownership of property.
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We use this set up to dibble small jigs around cover (boats docks, tree tops, etc.) for Crappie.
Does anyone know what a jiggerpole is and how to fish with it? 2009
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We use this set up to dibble small jigs around cover (boats docks, tree tops, etc.) for Crappie.
Does anyone know what a jiggerpole is and how to fish with it? 2009
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The rugged, multipurpose implement serves as a trowel, dibble, hand fork, and hoe.
Avital Binshtock: Grow a Conscience: How to Garden Green 2010
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The rugged, multipurpose implement serves as a trowel, dibble, hand fork, and hoe.
Avital Binshtock: Grow a Conscience: How to Garden Green 2010
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