dibble
/ˈdɪb(ə)l
/noun
A pointed hand tool for making holes in the ground for seeds or young plants.For small bulbs, make holes with a dibble and plant bulbs 3 to 5 inches apart....
- Make a dibble hole to drop the young plants into, and use a hose to gently wash soil into the hole.
- A dibble was an instrument for poking holes in the ground for planting.
verb [with object]
1Make (a hole) in soil with a dibble.
1.1Sow (a seed or plant) with a dibble.The seeds were dibbled at the rate of two seeds per hole at an espacement of 30 cm by 45 cm during the second week of September....
- Okay, he's a man of the soil, but his dibbling is astonishing.
- I know one lady who dibbles pieces of last year's growth in a border on the east side of her house where they root with no special care.
Origin
Late Middle English: apparently related to dib (also used in this sense in dialect).