dibbling

In this he anticipates the system of "dibbling" grain, which, notwithstanding, is spoken of by writers within half a century [9] as a new thing; and which, it is needless to say, still prevails extensively in many parts of England.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

A few anglers still practise the old style of dapping or "dibbling" after the manner advised by

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

He lays aside the plough when it has done its work, and takes up the seed-basket, and, in different ways, sows different seeds, scattering some broadcast, and dropping others carefully, grain by grain, into their place -- 'dibbling' it in, as we should say.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

The "wolf" (as in the "sexually aggressive male; a would-be seducer of women") of US-slang fame and his eye-popping, tongue-dragging, drool-dibbling leer when he watches Ms. Red Hot's nightclub routine. (available on YouTube)

The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010

For those with low majorities, even a small drop in votes in caught dibbling would lose them their seat, but those with larger majorities calculated wrongly, one hopes that they are able to withstand such a risk and still get voted back in.

MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update Mark Reckons 2009

The geriatric Frost, dibbling and drooling in a veritable orgy of smug, sneering undeserved self-praise and self-satisfaction, aided and abetted by a little cadre of cronies, cackling at their own non-jokes and declaring a rout in the culture war, was just the emetic needed after the Christmas over-indulgence to rid the gastric tract of bile.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Three or four older gentlemen graced the walkway outside, dibbling and dabbling in small bits of chatter.

A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

Three or four older gentlemen graced the walkway outside, dibbling and dabbling in small bits of chatter.

A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

Three or four older gentlemen graced the walkway outside, dibbling and dabbling in small bits of chatter.

A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

Holden: “In France plantations of the vine are made by dibbling in cuttings of two feet of length; pressing the earth firmly to their lower end, an essential part of the operation, noticed even by Xenophon.”

Oeconomicus 2007