Usually means: Tool for writing or drawing.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word pencil:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pencil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pencil: Merriam-Webster
  3. pencil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pencil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pencil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pencil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pencil, pencil: Wordnik
  8. pencil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pencil: Wiktionary
  10. pencil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pencil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pencil: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pencil: Dictionary.com
  14. pencil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pencil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pencil (disambiguation), Pencil (film), Pencil (mathematics), Pencil (optics), Pencil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pencil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pencil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pencil: Rhymezone
  20. pencil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pencil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pencil: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pencil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pencil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pencil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pencil: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Pencil: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PENCIL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Pencil (physics), pencil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pencil: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pencil: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PENCIL: Acronym Finder
  3. pencil: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pencil: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. pencil: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pencil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See penciled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A paintbrush.
noun:  A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
noun:  (optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
noun:  (geometry) A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
noun:  (medicine, obsolete, rare) A small medicated bougie.
verb:  (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
verb:  (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
noun:  (gambling) Ellipsis of power of the pencil. [(gambling) The authority to charge a punter's gambling or other bills to the casino.]

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