knib

English

Noun

knib (plural knibs)

1. Obsolete form of nib.
   • 1739, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business:

     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.

   • 1850, The Ladies' Repository, volume 18, page 412:

     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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