noun, verb
noun a thin piece of metal, plastic or card with a design cut out of it, that you put onto a surface and paint over so that the design is left on the surface; the pattern or design that is produced in this way
verb (-ll-, AmE also -l-) [VN, V] to make letters or a design on sth using a stencil
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stencil is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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