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escriba
A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut.
scribe
scratch awl
Portuguese
escriba
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scribe
"
scribe
scratch awl
Examples for "
scribe
"
1
The speaker was a
scribe
in the palace of Herod the Great.
2
A good science writer is an expert as well as a
scribe
.
3
The nomenclature of this gown is beyond the guess of the
scribe
.
4
This was the era of the
scribe
rather than of the priest.
5
Nevertheless, he would stay with the
scribe
until the job was completed.
1
And he scratched his head with the scratch -awl.
1
I carefully set the
'
scriber
down on the white stone and look around.
2
I slipped my
'
scriber
from my vest pocket.
3
I picked up the slate and
'
scriber
and paced back and forth in my Schrödinger cell.
4
In each of the stalls, a cardinal jotted the name on a
'
scriber
pad provided by the Scrutineers.
5
Floating on light, freecasting into the universe with my stylus and
'
scriber
tucked under my arm, I still had not decided.
6
Give me your stylus
'
scriber
there if you want me to spell it out in big block letters for you, boy.
7
I clutch my
'
scriber
to me like a shield, like some talisman, like a Bible, and walk the once-proud boulevard with shaky legs.
8
Comlogs and
'
scribers
filled with data and scribbled notes.
9
For a moment the wardroom was littered with floating
'
scribers
,
magazines, pulse knives, impact armor, and stripped-down energy lances.
10
The
Memo-
Scriber
's
counter, set to 000 when I went to bed, was now at 012.
11
"Report?" I said, opening my hands and setting the
'
scriber
on a table tray.
12
At the end of the Conclave, the
'
scribers
would be scrambled, their files deleted so that no record of the voting would remain.
13
I was standing there in the doorway with the
Memo
-
Scriber
under my arm, looking at the empty desk and sweating like a pig.
14
"See your
'
scriber
anywhere?"
Portuguese
escriba