nibbedadj.
/nɪbd/, U.S. /nɪbd/ Having a nib or point. Chiefly as the second element in compounds, as hard-nibbed, steel-nibbed, etc. Also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [adjective] > having (a) sharp projection(s)
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1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Ii2v/2 A hard nibbed pen.
a1703 R. Hooke Lect. Navigation & Astron. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 521 A fine pointed Needle or sharp nibb'd Pen.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 55 Nibbed-Hooks are of iron, used to hang the yarn on.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 20 He had a large lang-nibbit staff in his hand.
1858 M. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw I. 215 It was a new pen, sharply nibbed, such as the minister loved.
?1880 Ld. Tennyson Battle of Brunanburh xiv, in Wks. (1907–8) VI. 192 Many a carcase they left to be carrion..Left for the horny-nibb'd raven to rend it.
1890 W. Carnie Waifs 39 For big nibbet words he'd blake Gentile or Jew.
1944 R. V. Boughton in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder xii. 387/2 Most tiles are nibbed and only nailed with two nails to each tile every fourth or fifth course.
1965 R. P. Jhabvala Backward Place iii. 163 He..went on writing with his steel-nibbed pen which he had to keep dipping into ink.
1992 M. J. Staples Sergeant Joe (BNC) 26 On the tallboy was an inkstand with four wells, a squat bottle of ink in each. Nibbed pens lay in the groove.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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