English
dibble
see also: Dibble
Pronunciation
  • (RP, GA) IPA: /ˈdɪb(ə)l/
Noun

dibble (plural dibbles)

  1. A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plant#Noun|plants or to plant seed#Noun|seeds.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: plantoir
  • German: Pflanzholz, Setzholz
Verb

dibble (dibbles, present participle dibbling; past and past participle dibbled)

  1. (transitive) To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble.
    • 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, chapter 12, in The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia; 1), London: The Bodley Head, OCLC 752428337; republished London: Collins, 1998, ISBN 978-0-00-711555-6:
      It was Digory who had the bright idea of eating four each and planting the ninth; for, as he said, "if the bar off the lamp-post turned into a little light-tree, why shouldn’t this turn into a toffee-tree?" So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.
  2. (intransitive) To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil.
  3. (intransitive) To dib#Verb|dib or dip#Verb|dip frequently, as in angling.
Related terms Noun

dibble

  1. (slang, Britain, originally, Manchester, countable) A police officer.
  2. (slang, Britain, originally, Manchester, uncountable) Preceded by the: the police.
    Watch out, lads! Here comes the dibble!
Synonyms
  • (a police officer) seeSynonyms en
  • (the police) seeSynonyms en
Dibble
Proper noun
  1. Surname


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Offline English dictionary