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nib

See also:Nib,NIB,andní b'

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A fountain pen nib.
Cocoa nibs

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Etymology

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From a variant ofneb,perhaps due to association withnibble.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nib(pluralnibs)

  1. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferringinkto paper.
    • 1922,Virginia Woolf,Jacob's Room,Chapter 1:
      Slowly welling from the point of her goldnib,pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
  2. The bill or beak of a bird; theneb.
  3. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
  4. A piece of a roasted, hulledcocoabean.
  5. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; aprong.
  6. One of thehandlesprojecting from ascythesnath.
  7. Theshaftof awagon.

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  • (handle projecting from a scythe snath):thole

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Verb

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nib(third-person singular simple presentnibs,present participlenibbing,simple past and past participlenibbed)

  1. (transitive)To fit (a pen) with a nib.
    • 1820,James Henry Lewis,The best method of pen-making:
      Innibbingthe pen, place the inside of the point flat upon the nail of your left-hand thumb (holding the quill between the first and second finger of that hand), and let the whole length of the split be extended thereon, to steady the pen as much as possible[…]

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