Pointrel
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An engraving tool.
"Lay the rough plan upon the clean paper, on which you intend to draw the fair copy, press them close together by weights, and keep them as flat as possible; then with a pointrel, or needle point, prick through all the corners of the plan to be copied."
- 2 a tool used by an engraver wordnet
Example
More examples"Lay the rough plan upon the clean paper, on which you intend to draw the fair copy, press them close together by weights, and keep them as flat as possible; then with a pointrel, or needle point, prick through all the corners of the plan to be copied."
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