Definition of "pencilling" [pencilling]

• Present participle of pencil. (verb)
• A sketch made in pencil. (noun)

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• "Hencastle (the pencilling has been a good deal admired in my time, though I say it that shouldn't), and the Red-haired Gentleman noticed it in a moment."
• "In pencilled Hamburghs, on the other hand, there is much dissimilarity; the pencilling which is characteristic of the hens being almost absent in the males of both the golden and silver varieties."
• "Fortunately, this is often the same person that does the pencilling."