How to pronounce nib

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What nib means

noun

The pointed tip of a pen that puts ink on paper

In a sentence: Lily dipped the nib of her pen into the ink and wrote her name in curly letters.

Where it comes from: It comes from a form of an older word for a bird's beak. It may have been shaped by the word nibble.

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