Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of rag, chamois leather, or other material used for wiping or cleaning pens after use. Pen-wipers are often made up into ornaments more or less elaborate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cloth or other material for wiping off or cleaningink from apen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Two crocheted antimacassars, a pansy penwiper, and half a dozen rock cakes.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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She pulled an orange dahlia penwiper out of her pocket.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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She should have bought a penwiper at the jumble sale, I thought irrelevantly.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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Tossie, her chin propped on her hand, played idly with a large carnation penwiper.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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The diary was open, with the pen and the carnation penwiper covering the bottom two-thirds of the page.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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Baine brought a pen, ink, paper, and a penwiper shaped like a hedgehog, and then tea, scones, and buttered muffins on a silver tray.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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I lifted the penwiper. “— entry,” it read, the “y” trailing off into blankness.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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QUELCH don't care no more for 'Ome Rule than that' ere penwiper do, between you and me!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various
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It is not the feather bed or the warm biscuits that he thinks of, but that dainty little penwiper, with his initials worked in it, and those embroidered slippers, that _she_ gave him.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Charlotte's existence except as a penwiper -- she went in to him one morning with a message and came out with an ink smudge on her red dress -- she _said_ it was his pen -- the dress is the same colour as the penwiper, so she may be right.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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