lead pencil

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   pencil that has graphite as the marking substance

   Broaderpencil

   Partslead

Questions about lead pencil

What does lead pencil mean?

lead pencil means "pencil that has graphite as the marking substance".

Is lead pencil a common word?

lead pencil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.