dry point

noun

1. a technique of intaglio engraving with a hard steel needle, without acid, on a copper plate

2. the sharp steel needle used in this process

3. an engraving or print produced by this method

Example Sentences

The earliest works in the show are three small dry point etchings from 2008, 2010 and 2012 remarkable for their variety of delicate marks and their brinkmanship between abstraction and representation.

From New York Times

Filling the wooden benches and packed against the paneled walls, they listened intently as their lawyers and those of the Saudi government debated dry points of legal procedure.

From New York Times

I stopped to lick the dry point of my pencil.

From Literature

The Wild Boars eventually found themselves marooned on a small rocky shelf about 4km from the cave entrance, past a normally dry point known as Pattaya Beach which by now was flooded.

From BBC

A group of Avocets slept standing, each on one leg, on a dry point; and further away, two Spoonbills were busy sifting the soft mud with curious revolving gait.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• etching 
• illustration 
• inscription 
• lithograph 
• woodcut