What is "dibbles"

Usage examples of "dibbles".

Some of the men had crude bows, but most carried sticks or tools—stone-headed axes and hoes, dibbles, and even threshing flails.

The adult males carried throwing sticks, shell-tipped spears, and what were probably planting dibbles, though they would serve as weapons.

Some of the men had crude bows, but most carried sticks or tools--stone-headed axes and hoes, dibbles, and even threshing flails.

Having to be imported from England, they were rare amongst colo sm I farmers, nial almany of whom made do with nothing more than wooden dibbles and spades, with an ax and perhaps an iron hoe for ground-clearing.