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scriber

[ skrahy-ber ]

noun

  1. a tool for scribing wood or the like.


scriber

/ ˈskraɪbə /

noun

  1. a pointed steel tool used to score materials as a guide to cutting, etc Also calledscribe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of scriber1

First recorded in 1825–35; scribe 2 + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Chewing the scriber and needling his brain, he slowly built up a list of other possibilities.

The other, interested, gave them a searching once-over before he pushed a small scriber toward Rip.

The top of the thread is turned off 0.010 inch to allow the scriber F to slide freely on the screw.

The sleeve is graduated with fifty divisions each equaling a movement of the scriber of 0.001 inch.

The hole for the scriber in the scriber clamp of a surface gage is reamed out to fit the rods used with inside micrometers.

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