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Slate pencil   /sleɪt pˈɛnsəl/   Listen
Slate pencil

noun
1.
A pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate.





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"Slate pencil" Quotes from Famous Books



... bare tables, forms, hard wooden chairs, a cupboard, and a set of pigeon-holes. Miss Bey sat down at the end of the table in the "sixth," with her back to the window, and made Beth sit on her left. There were some books, a large slate, a slate pencil, and ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... help," he said, bringing forth a soapstone slate pencil, which he cracked into tiny lengths. "The candy that lasts!" he cried softly, as he dropped the bits ...
— The Rover Boys in New York • Arthur M. Winfield


Words linked to "Slate pencil" :   pencil


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