What does knib mean?
Knib means Obsolete form of nib..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete form of nib..
For the Round Hand and Round Text, the Pen must be knibb'd even and square, and the Slit so long (yet the Point so strong) as on the least Pressure the Stroke may enlarge and display, or return to itself; the Knib being the Width of the Body-stroke of your Writing.
Mr. John Isaac Hawkins — an American by birth, though for nearly forty years a resident of Europe, chiefly of England, and now in this country in a vigorous old age — claims the original invention of the project of so forming a Pen from Gold as to render its point, or knib, thoroughly indestructible.
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Knib means Obsolete form of nib..
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For the Round Hand and Round Text, the Pen must be knibb'd even and square, and the Slit so long (yet the Point so strong) as on the least Pressure the Stroke may enlarge and display, or return to itself; the Knib being the Width of the Body-stroke of your Writing.
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