Usually means: Graphite writing tool, mistakenly named.
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  1. lead pencil: Merriam-Webster
  2. lead pencil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lead pencil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lead pencil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lead pencil: Vocabulary.com
  6. lead-pencil, lead pencil: Wordnik
  7. lead pencil: Wiktionary
  8. lead pencil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. lead pencil: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lead pencil, lead pencil: Dictionary.com
  11. Lead pencil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. lead pencil: Rhymezone
  13. lead pencil: FreeDictionary.org
  14. lead pencil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. lead pencil: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lead pencil)

▸ noun:  A pencil with a core made of graphite.

Similar:
lead, pencil, pencilful, lead in one's pencil, propelling pencil, leadholder, coloured pencil, hair pencil, mechanical pencil, golf pencil, more...

Opposite:
pen, ink pen, ballpoint pen, marker

Types:
Dixon Ticonderoga, Faber-Castell, Pentel, Staedtler, Dixon, Bic, more...

Phrases:
lead in pencil, more...

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Similar:
lead, pencil, pencilful, lead in one's pencil, propelling pencil, leadholder, coloured pencil, hair pencil, mechanical pencil, golf pencil, more...

Opposite:
pen, ink pen, ballpoint pen, marker

Types:
Dixon Ticonderoga, Faber-Castell, Pentel, Staedtler, Dixon, Bic, more...

Phrases:
lead in pencil, more...



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