slate pencil

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   a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate

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Questions about slate pencil

What does slate pencil mean?

slate pencil means "a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate".

Is slate pencil a common word?

slate 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.