A tiny rivulet of water trickled over the stones, and two or three ducks were Dibbling with yellow bills among the miniature boulders.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey
On one of these occasions I one day saw a party of shoveller duck Dibbling in a small rain-pool at the side of the plantation, within a dozen yards of the old moat which surrounded it.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
The three different modes of sowing grain, by drilling, Dibbling, and broadcast, are all in use but chiefly the first, as being the most expeditious and the crop most easy to be kept free from weeds; the last is rarely practised on account of the great waste of seed; and Dibbling is used only in small patches of ground near the houses when they aim at neatness.
"Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton"
John Barrow