Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dibble.
  • noun A stick used for stirring broth, porridge, etc.; a pot-stick.
  • noun A slice; a skimmer; a spatula.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete A stick for stirring food.

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Examples

  • To every gallon put in a large lemon, pare and strain it, put the juice and peel into your tub, and when it is wrought put it into your barrel; let it work for three or four days, stir twice a day with a thible, so bung it up, and let it stand two or three months, according to the hotness of the weather.

    English Housewifery 2004

  • It racked me to recall past happiness, and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • As soon as these were melted, Bertha broke four eggs into them, stirring this indigestible mixture with a wooden thible -- an article of which my northern readers will not require a description, but the southern must be told that it is a long flat instrument with which porridge is stirred.

    Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • It racked me to recall past happiness and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.

    Wuthering Heights 1847

  • It racked me to recall past happiness and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.

    Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833

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  • a sliver

    March 12, 2009

  • The Scot and the British cook quibble

    ‘bout tools used for stirring their nibble:

    The Scotsman will hurtle

    To call it a spurtle,

    The Briton steadfastly says thible.

    April 9, 2018