nib

noun
🔊/nɪb/
🔊/nɪb/
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  1. the metal point of a pen钢笔尖
    • I dipped the nib into the ink and started to write.我把钢笔尖蘸上墨水写了起来。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryNib is used after these nouns:
    • pen
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    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘beak, nose’): probably from Middle Dutch nib or Middle Low German nibbe, variant of nebbe ‘beak’.