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keelivine pen

keelivine pen is the alternative form of keelyvine pen.

Meaning of keelyvine pen

Noun

keelyvine pen (plural keelyvine pens)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) A pencil of black lead.
    • Put up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen then, for I downa speak out an' ye hae writing materials in your hands1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...

Forms of keelivine pen

pluralkeelivine pens

Questions about keelivine pen

What is keelivine pen the alternative form of?
Keelivine pen is the alternative form of keelyvine pen.

Words near keelivine pen in the dictionary

  1. Keeling schedule
  2. Keeling schedules
  3. keelings
  4. Keelins
  5. keelivine
  6. keelivine pen
  7. keelivine pens
  8. keelivines
  9. keelless
  10. keelman
  11. keelmen

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