dibblern.
/ˈdɪblə/ 1. One who dibbles.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > making holes with dibbler > one who
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1770–4 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1804) II. 356 One dibbler generally undertakes the business of one gang.
1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 49 (note) A one-horse roll to level the flag, or furrow, for the dibblers.
2. An agricultural implement used in dibbling; a machine dibble.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > dibber
dibblec1450
planting stick1552
setting-stick1553
thivel1691
dibber1736
kippeen1830
dibbler1847
1847 Illustr. London News 24 July 58/1 For the best horse seed-dibbler, £15.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 699/1 Dibblers [figured].
1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 736/2 Drills, seed planters and dibblers.
3. A species of opossum: see quot.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Dasyuridae > subfamily Phascogalinae > other types
dibbler1850
planigale1936
1850 A. White Pop. Hist. Mammalia 166 The Antechinus apicalis of Mr. Gray, which is called the ‘Dibbler’ at King George's Sound.
1967 Times 15 Nov. 7/8 An animal thought to have become extinct at some time in the past 83 years has come to light again in Western Australia—the rat-sized carnivorous marsupial popularly known as the dibbler.
1970 Wildlife in Austral. Sept. 67/1 The re-discovery of..the dibbler, the noisy scrub-bird and the shortnecked tortoise.
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