Meaning

1 senses
  1. A small handheld stylus which utilizes pneumatically-pressurized air to intricately carve into rocks, usually to extract fossils or other desired objects such as precious stones.

Origin

By surface analysis, air + scribe (“drawing implement used in engraving and etching”).

By surface analysis, air + scribe (“drawing implement used in engraving and etching”).

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Forms

plural: air scribes
Singularair scribe
Pluralair scribes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
air pen

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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