Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inkhorn; an inkholder.
- Pedantic: same as
inkhorn .
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Examples
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Ink, from his cracked ink-pot, indigo rivulets and dribbling deltas …
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Lady Hester accepted it, smiling to herself as she dipped the end in the ink-pot.
Gatlinburg 2010
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Like a good little toady, I slipped out of the saddle and gathered them up, and without thinking set them on the table and put the ink-pot on top of them, to hold them steady - a simple, ordinary thing, but I heard an exclamation, and looked up to see Duff Mason, one of the infantry colonels, staring at me in surprise.
Fiancée 2010
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If the cost of a reproduction were too prohibitive, I would love to have a still-life composition of an open book, an ink-pot and quill, an empty birdcage you'll understand why when you read the book!
Archive 2008-04-01 Julianne Douglas 2008
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If the cost of a reproduction were too prohibitive, I would love to have a still-life composition of an open book, an ink-pot and quill, an empty birdcage you'll understand why when you read the book!
Dream Covers Julianne Douglas 2008
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Sir George is an expert at least, he knows these races: he is not a small employe with an ink-pot and a
Vailima Letters 2005
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But this little tempest in an ink-pot got me thinking about my own workshop days.
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But this little tempest in an ink-pot got me thinking about my own workshop days.
Lance Mannion: 2004
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Soames arrived on the stroke of time, and took his seat alongside the Board, who, in a row, each Director behind his own ink-pot, faced their Shareholders.
The Man of Property 2004
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Swift his “large silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, and a sand-box.”
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