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Word entry · 6 letters

dibble

Best crossword clue

"Garden hole maker"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪb(ə)l/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bbdeilStarts with DEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make a hole with a wooden hand tool

Word origin

From the character of Officer Charlie Dibble, a New York Police Department officer, in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat (first broadcast in the US in 1961, and in the UK in 1962 under the title Boss Cat).

Used in a sentence

  • Pol[ixenes] Then make you[r] Garden rich in Gilly'vors, / And do not call them baſtards. / Per[dita] Ile not put / The Dible in earth, to ſet one ſlip of them: […]
  • Earth'd up, here lies an imp o' hell, / Planted by Satan's dibble— / Poor silly wretch, he's damned himsel', / To save the Lord the trouble.
  • In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, / Or drop a seed, till thou wast wide awake; […]

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Garden hole maker6 letters
02Planting tool6 letters

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