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dabber
Part of speech: NounAn instrument used by engravers and others.
Usage examples "dabber":- Occasionally a rich reward would fall to the enterprising " dabber." - "Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer", W. C. Scully.
- I may be in as great a hurry as you can imagine; I may be but a poor nervous wreck already, as I am; I may be quivering to be up and away from there, but he dabs me with his towel- he dabs me until reason totters on her throne- sometimes just a tiny tot, as the saying goes, or it may be that the whole cerebral structure is involved- and then when he is apparently all through the Demoniac Dabber comes back and dabs me one more fiendish, deliberate and premeditated dab, making nine hundred and seventy- five dabs in all. - "Cobb's Anatomy", Irvin S. Cobb.