Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A holder for a pen point.
- noun A rack or cup for holding a pen or pens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A holder for pens or pen-points. It consists of a handle or stock, with a device for retaining the pen, usually a socket of metal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A handle for a pen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device to store a
pen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The classic American films were met with a penholder carved from the sister ship of the vessel whose wood was used to make the desk in the Oval Office.
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While Sipos was the first female player to use the penholder grip, she changed to the shakehand grip in 1932 and thereupon succeeded in defeating her former doubles partner Maria Mednyanszky.
Anna Sipos. 2009
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This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death … Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off ...
Jack Nicholson, Father Bob + Search for 2.0 Truth Ben Barren 2006
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Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Amusingly gruesome penholder, light pull, cupholde...
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death … Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off ...
Archive 2006-02-01 Ben Barren 2006
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Hovstad [sitting at his desk, biting his penholder, says slowly].
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Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Hovstad [sitting at his desk, biting his penholder, says slowly].
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I have a gob of flash drives laying around my office, crammed in desk drawers, filling up my penholder and generally getting in my way.
OCZ opens the Throttle on flash drives - SlipperyBrick.com 2008
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