单词 | foot-dibble |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot-dibble a. An instrument used to make holes in the ground for seeds, bulbs, or young plants. In its simplest form, a stout pointed cylindrical stick with or without a handle; but it may also have a cross bar or projection for the foot ( foot-dibble), or be forked at the point, or furnished with several points to make a number of holes at once. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > dibber dibblec1450 planting stick1552 setting-stick1553 thivel1691 dibber1736 kippeen1830 dibbler1847 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 713 Hoc subterrarium, a debylle. 1483 Cath. Angl. 92 A Debylle, pastinacum, subterratorium. 1563 T. Hill Most Briefe Treat. Garden (new ed.) 128 With your forked dibble, put vnder the head, loose it so in the earth, that [etc.]. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiv/1 A Dybbil. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 43v Through cunning with dybble, rake, mattock & spade: by line & by leauell, trim garden is made. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 100 Ile not put The Dible in earth, to set one slip of them. View more context for this quotation 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 64 A Dibble, an instrument to make holes in the ground with for setting beans, pease or the like. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) There is a Dibble of a modern Invention with several Teeth, the Body of it is made of a light Wood, and the Teeth of a Wood that is somewhat harder. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 112 In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, Or drop a seed. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 48 To plant them with the trowel or dibble. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 397 The people use a msaha or dibble, a chisel-shaped bit of iron, with a socket to receive a wooden handle. < as lemmas |
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