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stylus
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thumbnail|300px| Wax tablet and a Roman stylus
A stylus is a writing utensil or tool for scribing or marking into softer materials. Different styluses were used to write in cuneiform by pressing into wet clay, and to scribe or carve into a wax tablet. Very hard styluses are also used to engrave metal, and the slate and stylus system is used to punch out dots to write in Braille.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stylus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.