the shaft or handle of a pen; a pen

to make a living by writing or to engage in professional writing, often with a derogatory connotation of being a desk-bound intellectual or engaging in empty rhetoric

To engage in writing; often used in a negative sense to describe crafting facile prose, playing with words, or being a mere scribbler.

To earn a living as a writer or through clerical work; often used to describe someone who works with words rather than doing physical labor.

shaft or barrel of a pen or writing brush