dibber

NOUN
  1. a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
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How To Use dibber In A Sentence

  • The emphasis was and still is on self reliance with competitors doing all their own navigation as part of a pair or solo, travelling to different checkpoints where they 'dib' their electronic 'dibber' to show they've been there. Singletrack World
  • I ended up sowing a few peas in half frozen soil, poking, make that jabbing the holes with the dibber. Mish Mash Monday-Late February Edition « Fairegarden
  • Mike has written his last Stone Column but he plans to write a book, and I doubt Polly will be putting down her dibber for good either.
  • Using a dibber or a child's thick pencil, carefully tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the fresh compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling.
  • Holes were made with a 10-mm-diameter dibber and seed was sown before each hole was back-filled with soil and the surface firmed.
  • When you put everything back in the shed, make sure there's a designated place for everything, so you don't waste time searching for plant labels, pencils and dibbers.
  • I do love that dibber and use it for so many things, but the planting of small bulbs is where it excels. How To-Lily Bulblets « Fairegarden
  • Ray is a font of information, dissecting samples with a special knife called a dibber, none to more effect than a white mushroom called the 'Witch's Egg', which when sliced in two reveals a yellowing layer of foul-smelling slime encasing a grey gooey jelly. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The museum is based around a restored Victorian farmhouse and they had loads of old tractors, steam engines, farm equipment, diggers, dibbers and all kinds of ancient agricultural implements on display.
  • The utility model relates to a peanut dibber which is an agricultural machine.
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