Learned a new word today! dibber - it's a tool. You have a new word for us?

aceplace57 · #1 08-10-2012, 09:00 AM

I've been an avid reader since age 6 and always scored really well in vocabulary tests. It's fun learning new words.

I'm surprised that I hadn't ran across a dibber before. It's an old gardening tool used for centuries. I need one to sprig some St Augustine grass.

Hey! Another new word for me. brassicas - thats 2 words today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica
A dibber example.
http://www.gardentoolsforallseasons....o%20dibber.php

Quote:

A dibber is a simple method of making a hole to plant something - this could be brassicas or potatos (or other bulbs for that matter).

CalMeacham · #2 08-10-2012, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by aceplace57

I've been an avid reader since age 6 and always scored really well in vocabulary tests. It's fun learning new words.

I'm surprised that I hadn't ran across a dibber before. It's an old gardening tool used for centuries. I need one to sprig some St Augustine grass.

An example.
http://www.gardentoolsforallseasons....o%20dibber.php

I encountered dibber in Boccaccio's Decameron, that collection of salacious stories, where a penis is euphemistically referred to as "the dibber used to plant men".

My Interesting Word of the Day is Ullage, which is the empty space inside a barrel or other vessel. The emptier it is, the larger the ullage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullage

Taomist · #3 08-10-2012, 11:56 PM

I play Words with Friends. I used to play a lot of people, but after a wireless vacation I dropped all of them, and concentraded on WordFeud, where my real-life acquaintances play.

Except this one player kept asking to play more on WWF. So I do. Right now, s/he is the only person I play. I keep playing because...well, we're evenly-matched score-wise, but every. single. game. there appear from him words I've never heard of in my life. And I *thought* I'd heard a lot of words.

So let me share find the latest, let's see... "izar". Definition... izar - a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body

So I basically learn something new every day just from that one person. Pretty cool.

Rachellelogram · #4 08-11-2012, 02:14 AM

Saponification: The chemical reaction that occurs when a vegetable oil or animal fat is mixed with a strong alkali.
Trace: A stage in soapmaking called the "point of no return." In layman's terms, this is when the separate oils, fats, and lye officially become soap.
Nail-marbling: A method of painting fingernails that involves dropping nail polish onto the surface of a cup of water to make neato designs, taping up the skin around the nails, then dipping nails into the polish on the water. It yields some remarkably professional-looking results, given that it's a solo process!

Cub Mistress · #5 08-11-2012, 08:41 AM

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Cub Mistress · #6 08-11-2012, 08:50 AM

I forgot to add a word. This week's theme was reduplicatives, and that was the word I learned! It means words that repeat the same word, such as chop-chop or yada yada.