nib
/nɪb/ verb C2- To fit (a pen) with a nib.
He/she/it nibs · Past nibbed · Past participle nibbed · -ing form nibbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- nib
- He/she/it
- nibs
- Past
- nibbed
- Past participle
- nibbed
- -ing form
- nibbing
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“Look!” said Faria, showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long, and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting-brush, to the end of which was tied, by a piece of thread, one of those cartilages of which the abbé had before spoken to Dantès; it was pointed, and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen.
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