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ˈseblet dial.
Also 9 siblet (see E.D.D.).
[Metathesis of sedlib, seedlip.]
A basket in which seed is carried in sowing broadcast; see seedlip. seblet cake: see quot. 1855.
1633–4Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. 64 For a seblet to sowe corne 00 01 00. 1852Bearn in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIII. i. 101 The drill takes the place of the seblet. 1855Leisure Hour 751 The seblet-cake was a seed-cake with which it was once the custom to regale the workmen when all the wheat for the season had been sown. |