nib
/nɪb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bird's beak.
noun
Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
noun
A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
noun
One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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[…]."
- "the little nib or fructifying principle"
- "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 […]"