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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dib.

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Examples

  • They were hired out as farmhands, wandering up and down the rows of corn and bean fields, sometimes dropping seeds into dibbed holes, sometimes chopping weeds from the parched ground.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • They were hired out as farmhands, wandering up and down the rows of corn and bean fields, sometimes dropping seeds into dibbed holes, sometimes chopping weeds from the parched ground.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • They were hired out as farmhands, wandering up and down the rows of corn and bean fields, sometimes dropping seeds into dibbed holes, sometimes chopping weeds from the parched ground.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • The chicks had nearly all gone under the mother-hens, only one or two last adventurous ones still dibbed about in the dryness under the straw roof shelter.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • For pod and seed production planting is usually on the flat and the seeds are dibbed in holes about 2.5 cm deep, at the beginning of the rainy season.

    Chapter 35 1987

  • The holes are to be dibbed along the side of the line.

    The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

  • I gathered with my fellow start group on the line, dibbed my dibber and then we set off to the give out point which was a quick spin down the road.

    Singletrack World 2010

  • Every time an item is dibbed, the price goes down.

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

  • Every time an item is dibbed, the price goes down.

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

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