Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pencil

(pencils, pencilling, pencilled) 1. A pencil is an object that you write or draw with. It consists of a thin piece of wood with a rod of a black or coloured substance through the middle. If you write or draw something in pencil, you do it using a pencil. I found a pencil and some blank paper in her desk... He had written her a note in pencil. N-COUNT: also in N 2. If you pencil a letter or a note, you write it using a pencil. He pencilled a note to Joseph Daniels. VERB: V n to n • pencilled ...folded notepaper with the pencilled block letters on the outside. ADJ