nib

  • noun 1 the pointed end part of a pen, which distributes the ink. 2 (nibs) shelled and crushed coffee or cocoa beans.

  — ORIGIN originally in the sense beak, nose: probably from Dutch nib or Low German nibbe, related to NEB.

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