dibbles

(pronounced "dibbles"), a series of early-literacy measures administered to millions of kids; or toiling over reading curricula like Open Court - which features assessments every six weeks.

nanopolitan 2009

(pronounced "dibbles"), a series of early-literacy measures administered to millions of kids; or toiling over reading curricula like Open Court - which features assessments every six weeks.

nanopolitan 2009

So speaking, honest Andrew collected his dibbles, spades, and hoes, and threw them into a wheel-barrow, — leisurely, however, and allowing me full time to put any further questions which might occur to me before he trundled them off to the tool-house, there to repose during the ensuing day.

Rob Roy 2005

Digits existed long before dibbles and they are much more reliable.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

Flint spud, two drain scoops, bull lead and five dibbles.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Becket's House her looker had come; Lydd and Rye and Romney were only market-towns -- you did best in cattle at Rye, but the other two were proper for sheep; Old Honeychild was just a farm where she had bought some good spades and dibbles at an auction; at Misleham they had once had foot-and-mouth disease -- she had gone to Picknye Bush for the character of Milly Pump, her chicken-girl ....

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

So speaking, honest Andrew collected his dibbles, spades, and hoes, and threw them into a wheel-barrow, --- leisurely, however, and allowing me full time to put any further questions which might occur to me before he trundled them off to the tool-house, there to repose during the ensuing day.

Rob Roy 1887

So speaking, honest Andrew collected his dibbles, spades, and hoes, and threw them into a wheel-barrow, -- leisurely, however, and allowing me full time to put any further questions which might occur to me before he trundled them off to the tool-house, there to repose during the ensuing day.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

So speaking, honest Andrew collected his dibbles, spades, and hoes, and threw them into a wheel-barrow, -- leisurely, however, and allowing me full time to put any further questions which might occur to me before he trundled them off to the tool-house, there to repose during the ensuing day.

Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

The man who dibbles is to move backwards and to be followed by two or three women or children, who drop in the grains.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795