Pencilful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pencilful is a noun meaning The quantity of lead (or graphite) that fills a pencil.
Meaning
The quantity of lead (or graphite) that fills a pencil.
More Meanings
- The amount that can be written with a pencil.
- (obsolete) The amount that can be held in a pencil (medicinal bougie).
- (historical) The amount of paint, water, ink, etc. that can be held on a paintbrush.
Example Sentences
take up a pencilful of ink.
“[…]Shall I give you the whole pencilful?” One blink. “Here it is. I’m pouring it between your lips. Try to swallow.”
Lift a pencilful of dry gold on to the palette, now dip enough gold size to bind it, and a touch of turps to make it run freely.
Believe me, this and her enclosed “letter”—over the writing of which she has sucked almost a whole pencilful of copying-ink lead—is the continued work of many evenings.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pensill, pencill, spooneful, pensil, pilule, globulus.
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