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Tool for planting seeds
Answer for the clue "Tool for planting seeds ", 6 letters:
dibble
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Word definitions for dibble in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dibble \Dib"ble\, n. [See Dibble , v. i.] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tool to make a hole in the soil (as to plant seeds)," mid-15c., probably from Middle English dibben (perhaps akin to dip ) + instrumental suffix -le . The verb is from 1580s. Related: Dibbled ; dibbling .
Usage examples of dibble.
True to form, Jess Dibble had been by with the snow plow, and the walking was easier.
The people in the group turned and looked down over the edge of the porch to see Eddie Lee Dibble, with his mother, Jackie, laboring through the snow in his wake.
That was why the eldest Dibble boy, Luke, was now serving five years in the pen in Boise.
Jackie Dibble stood in the doorway, having seen the approaching headlights.
Luke, Erica knew, was the eldest Dibble son, now residing in the state penitentiary in Boise.
The three older Dibble boys were all bullies, thieves, and mischief-makers.
The big-screen TV in the living room turned up at the Dibble household shortly after a similar one had disappeared on its way to the county-run nursing home.
The Dibble boys acted like abused children, but they came to school in good clothing, warm coats and boots, always clean.
Eddie Lee Dibble chinned himself on the side of the table and glanced about.
Then she remembered that this was the afternoon that Eddie Lee Dibble was to show up for work.
He jerked his head up in time to see the Dibble boys standing in the door, startled expressions on their countenances.
Herb Schultz, and of Lena Lemm, Carl Nelson, and Jess Dibble across the road.
Jackie Dibble heard the conversations, or noticed the sudden silences when her presence became known, and shivered.
McMurtry were still alive, she would probably try to find a way to get that child out of the Dibble household.
Another mode of propagation is to take cuttings at midsummer and dibble them into boxes of leaf soil and sand.