dibble

/ˈdɪb(ə)l/

verb

(transitive) To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. / (intransitive) To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. / (intransitive) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.

She dibbled the seeds into the soil.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble.

And as in winter, when the frost breaks up, / At winter's end, before the spring begins, / And a warm west wind blows, and thaw sets in— / After an hour a dripping sound is heard / In all the forests, and the soft-strewn snow / Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes, / And from the boughs the snowloads shuffle down; […]

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(intransitive) To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil.

There is another method of ſowing wheat in rows uſed in ſome counties, which is termed dibbling in the language of agricultors, and consiſts in making perpendicular holes one inch and half or two inches deep, as is commonly done in planting potato-roots; theſe holes are made by a man, who has a proper ſtaff ſhod with iron in each hand, and as he walks backwards is able by looking at the part of the row already made to keep nearly in a ſtraight line, and to make two holes at once at about nine inches diſtant from each other every way.

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