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A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick for making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped dibber.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry).
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.
Dibble, a planting tool also known as a Dibber; Dibble (name) Dibble, Oklahoma, a town in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States; Dibble Place, California, United States; British Police, a common nickname for members of the British Police Force that originated in Manchester; In Antarctica: Dibble Bluff, a rock bluff; Dibble Glacier, a channel ...
Shallot bulbs Hippeastrum (amaryllis) bulb. In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases [1] that function as food storage organs during dormancy. In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also called ornamental bulbous plants or just bulbs.
Bulb Energy, a British-based energy supplier (2013–2023) The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act (BULB Act), an unenacted U.S. federal legislative proposal; Bulbs, a slang term for testicles. Bulbus glandis
The verse abounds with dynamic visual imagery of the roots, bulbs, and stems practically growing before the eyes of the speaker. The olfactory imagery of the cellar's rankness, presented largely in a litany following the sixth line, blends with the tactile nature of the "slippery planks" in the ninth line.