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Definition of "lead pencil" []

  • A pencil that uses graphite as its marking substance. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lead pencil" in a sentence
  • "I should prefer to have the patterns reflected either by your perception or Watson’s lack thereof; however, a stub of lead pencil and this unsavoury length of butcher’s paper will have to suffice."
  • "While Morse was in Bristol, his friend C.R. Leslie thus writes to him in lead pencil from London, on November 29, 1814: ”"