dry point

1. 1.

   a print produced by dry point engraving

   Broaderengraving
2. 2.

   a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate

   Broaderneedle

Questions about dry point

What does dry point mean?

dry point means "a print produced by dry point engraving". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is dry point a common word?

dry point is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.