Meaning of knib | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“For the Round Hand and Round Text, the Pen must be knibb'd even and square, and the Slit so long (yet the Point⟳ so strong) as on the least Pressure the Stroke may enlarge and display, or return⟳ to itself; the Knib being the Width of the Body-stroke of your Writing.”

“Mr. John Isaac Hawkins — an American by birth, though for nearly forty years a resident of Europe, chiefly of England, and now in this country in a vigorous old age — claims the original invention of the project of so forming a Pen from Gold as to render its point⟳, or knib, thoroughly indestructible.”

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