Usually means: Blade with straight edge, rounded tip.
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noun:  (printing, historical) A printer's tool with a claw at one end for prizing up forms.
noun:  A blade with one straight edge and one edge which runs parallel for most of the blade's length until it curves abruptly (almost at a right angle) down to a point at the tip, resulting in less of a piercing point than on a Wharncliffe; (loosely) a Wharncliffe.

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