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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