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noun
- a tempered steel rod, with a lozenge-shaped point and a rounded handle, used for engraving furrows in metal.
- a similar tool used by marble workers.
- a prehistoric pointed or chisellike flint tool.
noun
- a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp lozenge-shaped point, used for engraving furrows in metal, wood, or marble
- an engraver’s individual style
- archaeol a prehistoric flint tool with a very small transverse edge
engraver’s tool, 1660s, from French burin, cognate with Italian bolino, Spanish buril, perhaps from Old High German bora “tool for boring” (see bore (v.)).