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Pointed ends
Answer for the clue "Pointed ends ", 4 letters:
nibs
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Word definitions for nibs in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
especially in His Nibs "boss, employer, self-important person," 1821, of unknown origin; perhaps a variant of nob "person of high position."
Usage examples of nibs.
Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes.
As the pirates advanced, the quick eye of Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out.
Now Nibs rose from the ground, and the others thought that his staring eyes still saw the wolves.
All looked at him in wonder, save Nibs, who fortunately looked at Wendy.
You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella.
Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out.
It is amusing to stand and watch the continuous stream of nibs rushing down, like hail in a storm, into the screw conveyor.
The cost of fine grinding is considerable, for whilst the first breaking down of the cacao nibs and sugar crystals is comparatively easy, it is found that as the particles of chocolate get finer the cost of further reduction increases by leaps and bounds.
Horn pens, tortoise-shell pens, nibs of diamond or ruby imbedded in tortoise shell, nibs of ruby set in fine gold, nibs of rhodium and of iridium imbedded in gold,-- all have been adopted at different times, but most of them have been found too costly for general adoption.
Bramah patented quill nibs made by splitting quills and cutting the semicylinders into sections which were shaped into pens and adapted to be placed in a holder.
These were, perhaps, the first nibs, the progenitors of a host of steel, gold, and other pens.
Hawkins and Mordan, in 1823, made nibs of horn and tortoise shell, instead of quill.
English patent, 1831, was designed to present the nibs in the right direction while preserving the customary positions of the pen and hand.
The pens we used had detachable nibs and it was necessary to dip your nib into the ink-well every six or seven seconds when you were writing.
The nibs we used were very fragile and most boys kept a supply of new ones in a small box in their trouser pockets.