Nib

Quick meaning: Nib is a noun meaning The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

Meaning

The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

More Meanings

1. (now dialectal) A bird's beak.
2. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
3. A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
4. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
5. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
6. The shaft of a wagon.
7. (transitive) To fit (a pen) with a nib.

Example Sentences

the little nib or fructifying principle

Ford, whose often acid nib belied a deep love of all things Iberian, is one of 20 British authors profiled in a new Spanish book[…].

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.

In nibbing the 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 […]

Word Forms

• nibs
• nibbing
• nibbed

Synonyms for nib

Depending on context, synonyms include bill, pecker, thole, beak, neb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bill, beak, neb, penpoint, knib, nibber.

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