Meaning of keelyvine pen | Babel Free

Definitions

A pencil of black lead.

Scotland, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“Put⟳ up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen then, for I downa speak⟳ out an' ye hae writing materials in your hands”

“This article, if finished at all, must be written with the keelavine pen on the backs of old letters—whereof, thank⟳ heaven! we have⟳ scores unanswered—by fits and snatches, as we repose from our labours on the gree-sward;.”

“A strip⟳ of lead⟳ in a case of wood or a strong reed, resembling the drawing-pencil to which we are now accustomed, is the Keelyvine-pen of North Britain; and an invention which is probably not older than the commencement of the last⟳ century.”

“Perhaps he knew that “fules," as the Shepherd says, dreaded his "keelavine pen," and so abstained from a source of offence.”

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