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Try turning empty bowl with electronic tool (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dibble

'tool' is the definition.
(dibble is a kind of tool)

'try turning empty bowl with electronic' is the wordplay.
'try' becomes 'bid' (bid is a kind of try**).
'turning' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'empty' means to remove the middle letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'electronic' becomes 'e' (as in e-mail or e-books).
'bowl' with its middle taken out is 'bl'.
'bid' written backwards gives 'dib'.
'dib'+'bl'+'e'='DIBBLE'

(Other definitions for dibble that I've seen before include "Small pointed tool to make holes in earth" , "Small pointed tool to make holes for bulbs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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