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Definition of Dibbed
1. dib [v] - See also: dib
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibbed
Literary usage of Dibbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"After they are rooted they are dibbed into pots or pans about the same distance
apart, and after establishing themselves here they are stored away for the ..."
2. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"drilled or dibbed. The advantages of both methods were still hotly denied.
A man who used a drill would be asked by his neighbours when he was going to sow ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"This Cornish Britannia was, I should say, about three- and-twenty. Her manner,
sir, was easy and dignified ; and, as she dibbed the handle of her ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1844)
"/*ï » • 4bu«heh«eed wheat, (being dibbed; all | |,, ,, И )Г~* Subject to rent
and parochial payments 74 4 л " It may be safely stated that the average of ..."
5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1837)
"... where the soil is at all stiff, will be a bad practice, from its being certain
to confine and crush the root fibres within the walls of the dibbed hole. ..."
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