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Verb: scribe  skrIb
  1. Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
Noun: scribe  skrIb
  1. Informal term for journalists
    - scribbler, penman
     
  2. Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
    - copyist, scrivener
     
  3. A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
    - scriber, scratch awl
Noun: Scribe  skreeb
  1. French playwright (1791-1861)
    - Augustin Eugene Scribe

Derived forms: scribes, scribing, scribed

Type of: awl, dramatist, employe [US], employee, journalist, journo [Brit], mark, nock, playwright, score

Encyclopedia: Scribe

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