pensill

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A form of pencil — A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.

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Meanings

nounpensill (plural pensills)

plural pensills

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pencil.

    Fifthly, being thus on land with your compasse, set all lands or islands in sight, draw the form with your paper and pensill, and estimate their distance.

    1631, Luke Fox, Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, published 2001, →ISBN, instructions to Iohn Coatesworth, page 168
  2. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pencel.

    […] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]

    1483, Richard III, “Richard III. to Piers Courteis, Keeper of his Wardrobe”, in Letters of the Kings of England, published 1846, page 153
adjective
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pensile.

    However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity [...].

    1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165
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APA

pensill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pensill

MLA

“pensill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pensill. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pensill,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pensill.

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