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pointrel

pointrel noun: an engraving tool.

Noun

pointrel (plural pointrels)

  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.1803, George Adams, Geometrical and Graphical Essays

Forms of pointrel

pluralpointrels

Questions about pointrel

What does pointrel mean?
Pointrel means an engraving tool.
What part of speech is pointrel?
Pointrel is a noun.
What is the plural of pointrel?
The plural of pointrel is pointrels.

Words near pointrel in the dictionary

  1. pointmaker
  2. pointmakers
  3. pointman
  4. pointmen
  5. Pointon
  6. pointrel
  7. pointrels
  8. points
  9. points and calls
  10. points at infinity
  11. points classification

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