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Noun(1) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs(2) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end(3) used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
Verb(1) plant with a wooden hand tool(2) make a hole with a wooden hand tool

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(1) Using a conical-tipped length of steel reinforcing bar as a dibble , Aaron pokes a hole through the paper where he wants each clove.(2) For small bulbs, make holes with a dibble and plant bulbs 3 to 5 inches apart.(3) Watered by wet-season rains or irrigation, wet-rice fields range from small plots that can only be worked with a hoe or dibble stick to those large enough for a water-buffalo - drawn plow.(4) They are made by local artisans, as are the trowel, dibble (used for punching holes in the soil in order to plant seeds), and line reel, which enables one to plant in neat, straight rows.(5) Use a dibble or broom handle to make holes that are 6 inches deep, and place one transplant in each hole.(6) The dibble used to rapidly punch a hole for seedlings or bulbs, had a curved tubular handle without a cap and was 10 u00d4u00f6u00bcu252cu00f3 inches long.(7) A dibble was an instrument for poking holes in the ground for planting.(8) Make a dibble hole to drop the young plants into, and use a hose to gently wash soil into the hole.(9) I know one lady who dibbles pieces of last year's growth in a border on the east side of her house where they root with no special care.(10) The seeds were dibbled at the rate of two seeds per hole at an espacement of 30 cm by 45 cm during the second week of September.(11) Planting tools vary: hoedads, foot-long flat blades mounted on handles for scraping down to bare mineral soil around each planting site; long or short-handled shovels; pointed dibbles and augers for digging the hole.(12) Okay, he's a man of the soil, but his dibbling is astonishing.
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