pencil stub
Nearly used up
A pencil stub is what remains of a pencil after most of it has been worn away through sharpening and use—too short to hold comfortably but not quite useless: She found a pencil stub in her coat pocket.
The term suggests something well-used, nearly exhausted, often kept around despite its diminished state.
- graphiteCrystalline carbon allotrope
- number twoDeputy or runner-up
- nubCentral point, essence
- writingRecorded language on surface
- drawingMarks forming a picture
write it down · frugality · sketching · ferrule · shavings · impermanence · paper · sharpening · note-taking · eraser · persistence · lead · doodling · resourcefulness · make do · brevity · repurposing · marking
- pencils