dibble

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Dere's gwine ter be de very dibble--'scuse me please, ma'am, 'scuse me, but ma feelin's done got de better of ma breedin'--ter pay ef things go on as dey've begun since de Madam--_an' dat dawg_--invest deyselves 'pon Severndale.

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  1. noun A pointed gardening implement used to make holes in soil, especially for planting bulbs or seedlings.
  2. transitive verb To make holes in (soil) with a pointed implement.
  3. transitive verb To plant by means of a pointed implement.

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  • He held a stainless steel dibble, swung it to and fro in a menacing manner. —  process 10
  • Samuel has surprised us this year and struck up a great combination with Gardner officer dibble: Shittu might go if we can sign someone better.
  • I expect we'll be lucky to get a point this time around. officer dibble: Realistically we'll battle but I can't see us coping with the pace of your attack.
  • Lemmings meets Spore ... with a little dibble dabble of cute. —  G4TV - The Feed
  • I don't think you'd find anybody in town who would say that about, say, the Silent Years or the Hard Lessons (even though I'm sure, and know in some cases, that they dibble dabble in other things). —  The Detroit Dish - MotorCityRocks
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English dibbel.

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  1. from Middle English dibbille, debylle, *dibel; apparently from dib, dip, + -el, equivalent to -er.
  2. from dibble, n.
  3. Freq. of dib for dip.
 

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