nib

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I think the recommendation was to make sure the object you got from your nib was an instance of the class you expected.

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  1. noun The sharpened point of a quill pen.
  2. noun A tapered point of a pen, designed to be inserted into a penholder or fountain pen.
  3. noun A sharp point or tip.

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  • I think the recommendation was to make sure the object you got from your nib was an instance of the class you expected. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Now, I know nothing about the way a nib is made, so I'm not sure if they're actually made to do this. —  D*I*Y Planner - Comments
  • A thin dry line may be obtained by turning the pen over and drawing with the back of the nib, although if the pen so used be worn it is apt to have a "burr" over the point that may prevent its working satisfactorily in this way. —  Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples
  • The separation of the shell from the nib is now effected by a powerful current of air, the large nib falling against the current, whilst the shell is carried with it and drops into another compartment. —  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
  • If good quality cocoa is used, the butter contained in the nib is all that is needful to incorporate sugar and nib into one soft chocolate paste for grinding and moulding, but in the commoner chocolates extra cocoa butter has to be added. —  The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Alteration of neb.

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  1. Also knib; a modern variant of neb, perhaps in part due to association with nibble: see neb.
  2. from nib, n.
  3. A variant of nip. Cf. nibble.
 

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