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Pen-mak′er.

A tool formed like a pair of pinchers for making quill-pens.

The jaws of the tool are convex and concave to receive the point of a quill which has one half cut away; and, by closing, a set of small dies form the outline of the pen, while a little blade in the middle makes the slit. [1664]

Pen-rack.

Spring pen-rack.

A machine on this principle was invented by Bramah, and by it six double-pointed pens were made from each quill. A very large number of pens were made in this way before the introduction of steelpens.

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