Dibble

//ˈdɪb(ə)l//

Synonyms for "dibble" (74 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (15)

dib angle bait the hook bed bob broadcast buffer clam

Noun(6 words)

dibber old bill 'rales cobbler cop copper

Verb(1 words)

dib

Strong matches (22)

dap dibber disseminate drill drive fish fly-fish forest gig go fishing grig guddle implant inseminate instrument jack jacklight

Noun(5 words)

dib dibbler ecilop esclop fed

Related words (37)

Noun(10 words)

jake lawman mr plod pig plonk police police officer pork rozzer slop

jig lathe net plant point pot put in reforest reset retimber scatter seed seed seed down seine seminate set shrimp sow sow broadcast spin

Show 7 more words

still-fish tool torch transplant trawl troll whale

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

5 entries

dig dig out hand tool plant set

Synonyms

2 entries

dib dibber

Related terms

4 entries

dibber dibbly dibbly-dobbler ibble dibble

derived

1 entries

dibbler

derived from

1 entries

dib

etymologically related_to

1 entries

theobald

has context

3 entries

britain manchester slang

is a

1 entries

hand tool

manner of

2 entries

dig plant

related to

10 entries

angling dibber dibbly dibbly dobbler hole implement pointed police police officer the

Translations

21 translations across 17 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

plantador noun (pointed implement)

Czech

1 entries

sázecí kolík noun (pointed implement)

Danish

2 entries

plantepind noun (pointed implement)
plantestok noun (pointed implement)

Dutch

2 entries

pootijzer noun (pointed implement)
pootstok noun (pointed implement)

Finnish

1 entries

istutuspuikko noun (pointed implement)

French

1 entries

plantoir noun (pointed implement)

Galician

1 entries

plantador noun (pointed implement)

German

3 entries

Pflanzholz noun (pointed implement)
Setzholz noun (pointed implement)
Steckholz noun (pointed implement)

Irish

1 entries

stibhín noun (pointed implement)

Italian

1 entries

piantatoio noun (pointed implement)

Laboya

1 entries

kanyakka noun (pointed implement)

Latin

1 entries

pastinum noun (pointed implement)

Macedonian

1 entries

колче noun (pointed implement)

Māori

1 entries

kōkotaia noun (pointed implement)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

plantepinne noun (pointed implement)

Polish

1 entries

sadzak noun (pointed implement)

Welsh

1 entries

tyllwr noun (pointed implement)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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: […]

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, / Or drop a seed, till thou wast wide awake; […]

Source: wiktionary

And as in winter, when the frost breaks up, / At winter's end, before the spring begins, / And a warm west wind blows, and thaw sets in— / After an hour a dripping sound is heard / In all the forests, and the soft-strewn snow / Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes, / And from the boughs the snowloads shuffle down; […]

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.