ADJECTIVE
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(used of pens) having a writing point or nib especially of a certain kind
a broad-nibbed pen
How To Use nibbed In A Sentence
- Blake snibbed the lock on the door and walked across to where she stood, her slender back to his heavily laden desk. Mistress For A Weekend
- The fountain pen, equipped with a reusable cartridge for holding a large supply of ink to be steadily fed to the nib, was a late 19c advance on the basic metal-nibbed pen.
- It's only ever happened once, and that was only because a visitor snibbed a lock that wasn't meant to be snibbed.
- I got into my room and snibbed the door.
- I started my writing life in the 1940s as an elementary student at the Washington School in Medford, Massachusetts, using a steel-nibbed pen and an inkwell, so I have lived through every technology. Fiction in the Age of E-Books
- Once inside the rest room she snibbed the door and turned the tap over the washbasin full on to cover any sound.
- He was "snibbed," confined to his diocese, and "cast down, yea, lower than the dust," wrote Rothes to Lauderdale. A Short History of Scotland
- a broad-nibbed pen
- Doors were never locked, nor windows ever snibbed and I cannot remember any house being burgled.
- There, with the door snibbed, he opened out on Tammas, who, after his usual manner when hard pressed, pretended to be deaf. Auld Licht Idyls