2. Verb. (third-person singular of dibble) ¹
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Definition of Dibbles
1. dibble [v] - See also: dibble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibbles
Literary usage of Dibbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"SEED dibbles AND DRILLS. Importance of Leverage in Crushing Power. ... Drills and
dibbles of the Ichneumon- flies.—A wonderful Specimen from Bogota. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"There were very congenial office, «nd one hi- budding dibbles, dibbles in the
... To dally with a dibbles at the breast, all illas- ladle, and contemplate ..."
3. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"The crank raises the dibbles up and down by means of connecting rods and levers,
which double the vertical without increasing the horizontal motion ; and in ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk by Arthur Young (1804)
"bushels broad-cast, dibbles ten pecks to three bushels. ... Mr. FRANCIS, at
Martham, dibbles two bushels: the quantity sown is ten to twelve pecks. ..."
5. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1852)
"During the ascent of the dibbles, the seed-bar receives a supply in the manner
before described; and the seed, when the dibbles have completed their ..."
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