engraver's tool

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• engraver — noun a) A person who engraves b) A tool used in this process …   Wiktionary

• engraver — en grav·er || vÉ™ n. one who engraves, one who carves letters or designs; tool used in engraving …   English contemporary dictionary

• rocking tool — noun : rocker 2c(3) * * * rocking tool noun An engraver s tool for roughing a plate • • • Main Entry: ↑rock …   Useful english dictionary

• graving tool — noun a tool used by an engraver • Syn: ↑graver, ↑pointel, ↑pointrel • Hypernyms: ↑hand tool • Hyponyms: ↑scauper, ↑scorper * * * …   Useful english dictionary

• bu|rin — «BYUR ihn», noun. 1. a) an engraver s pointed steel tool for cutting. b) a similar tool used by marbleworkers. 2. the style of execution of an engraver. 3. a flint tool of the upper paleolithic period, having a cutting edge somewhat similar to… …   Useful english dictionary

• Flammarion woodcut — The Flammarion woodcut is an anonymous wood engraving (once thought to be a woodcut), so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion s 1888 book L atmosphère: météorologie populaire ( The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology …   Wikipedia

• typography — /tuy pog reuh fee/, n. 1. the art or process of printing with type. 2. the work of setting and arranging types and of printing from them. 3. the general character or appearance of printed matter. [1635 45; < NL typographia, equiv. to Gk týpo(s)… …   Universalium

• burin —   n. engraver s tool; graver.    ♦ burinist, n. engraver …   Dictionary of difficult words

• cradle — cradler, n. /krayd l/, n., v., cradled, cradling. n. 1. a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers. 2. any of various supports for objects set horizontally, as the support for the handset of a telephone. 3. the place where anything is nurtured …   Universalium

• burin — engraver s tool, 1660s, from Fr. burin, cognate with It. bolino, Sp. buril, perhaps from O.H.G. bora tool for boring (see BORE (Cf. bore) (v.)) …   Etymology dictionary

• scalper — n. 1 a person or thing that scalps (esp. in sense 4 of v.). 2 (also scauper, scorper) an engraver s tool for hollowing out woodcut or linocut designs. Etymology: SCALP + ER(1): sense 2 also f. L scalper cutting tool f. scalpere carve …   Useful english dictionary