Definition of "slate-pencil" [slate-pencil]

• A pencil of soft slate, or like material, used for writing or figuring on framed pieces of slate. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When we came in sight of a town, it looked, to my fancy, like a large drawing on a slate, with abundance of slate-pencil expended on the churches and houses where the snow lay thickest."
• "The incense sickened her and a stray, ragged note from one of the tenors in the choir grated on her ear like the shriek of a slate-pencil."
• "The nut-crackers played at leap-frog, and the slate-pencil ran about the slate; there was such a noise that the canary woke up and began to talk to them, in poetry too!"