D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

blue-pencil

· IPA
01 v. t. to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of book…
  1. 1.
    to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.