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Definition of 'nib'English
Noun
( en-noun)
The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
- Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib , pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
* Sir Thomas Browne
- the little nib or fructifying principle
One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
The shaft of a wagon.
Derived terms
* denib
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