noun
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a pad used by printers for applying ink by hand
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a felt-tip pen with a very broad writing point, used especially by bingo players to cancel numbers on their cards
Etymology
Origin of dabber
Example Sentences
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She keeps a second pink ink dabber standing by just in case the one she is using to mark the spaces on her bingo sheet runs out.
From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2015
When it is not available the dabber must be employed in the old manner.
From A Treatise on Etching by Lalanne, Maxime
Means of Smoking the Ground.—The ground when laid on the plate with the dabber, is quite transparent and allows the glitter of the metal to shine through.
From A Treatise on Etching by Lalanne, Maxime
Another form is called the pelote, which is merely a ball of scraped lint tied up in a piece of linen rag, commonly called a dabber.
From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous
In a coloring process in use there Forster, or Foster, noticed a peculiar composition that covered the surface of the potter's "dabber."
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.
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