dib3 (dib)

[E. dial.; origin obscure.] 1. One of the small bones, or huckle-bones, of a sheep's leg; the knee-pan or the ankle-bone. See as tragal us. [Prov. Eng.] -2. pl. A children's game, consisting in throwing up the small bones of the legs of sheep, or small stones, and catching them first on the palm and then on the back of the hand. As played with pebbles, this game is also called chacks tones, jackstones. In Scotland called chuckies, chucks, or chuckie - stanes, and played with pebbles. 3. pl. Money. [Eng. slang.] Pray come with more cash in your pocket: Make nunky surrender his dibs . James Smith , Rejected Addre es, George Barn well. -dib, div. [Hind. dip, dwip, Dibamidæ (di-bam'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., logic, same as dimaris. dibber (dib'er), n. [Appar. The pointed ends of claw-bars are often slightly bent, to facilitate getting a pinch and levering in certain positions. The end. is called a dibber , for making holes. Wm. Morgan, Man. of Mining Tools, p. 158. IMG:content-2574.png:[blocks in formation] dibble2 (dib'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. dibbled, ppr. dibbling. [Freq. of dib1 for dip.] To dip or let the bait fall gently into the water, as in angling. This stone fly, then, we dape or dibble with, as with the drake. Cotton , in Walton's Angler. Man in a small boat fishing: ask him civilly what he's doing. He answers " Dibbling for chub.".. All the villagers dibble . F. C. Burn and , Happy Thoughts, v. dibbler (dib'lėr), n. One who dibbles, or an instrument for dibbling. dicacity