单词 | to dibble in |
释义 | > as lemmasto dibble in (also into) 1. transitive. To make a hole in (the soil) with or as with a dibble; to sow or plant by this means. to dibble in (also into): to put in or plant by dibbling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > make hole with dibble dibble1582 hole1756 dab1787 strike1797 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 So far is yt crampornd with roote deepe dibled at helgat's. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 47 One farmer near Dunwich..dibbled 258 acres. 1799 Gentleman's Mag. 1 392 A woman employed..dibbling beans. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 A skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ix. 160 The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick..by the tiny hoofs of sheep. 1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 312 The soft strewn snow Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) iv. 54 The seeds of the dhurra are dibbled in about three feet apart. < as lemmas |
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