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Tapper vs Dibber - What's the difference?

tapper | dibber |

As nouns the difference between tapper and dibber

is that tapper is one who taps while dibber is a tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc. Also known as a dibble or dib.

tapper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who taps
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in
  • A tap-dancer
  • A phone tapper or wiretapper
  • (US) A tapster
  • (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
  • (UK, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.

    • dibber

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc. Also known as a dibble or dib.
  • * 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
    • In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber , receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
  • one who dibs.

    • See also

    * widger

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