Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inkhorn; an inkholder.
  • Pedantic: same as inkhorn.

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Examples

  • Ink, from his cracked ink-pot, indigo rivulets and dribbling deltas …

    David Mitchell’s Brilliant Misstep 2010

  • Lady Hester accepted it, smiling to herself as she dipped the end in the ink-pot.

    Gatlinburg 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • But this little tempest in an ink-pot got me thinking about my own workshop days.

    Workshopping Workshop-workshoppy prose 2004

  • But this little tempest in an ink-pot got me thinking about my own workshop days.

    Lance Mannion: 2004

  • 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

  • Swift his “large silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, and a sand-box.”

    The Journal to Stella 2003

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