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Definition of Inkhorns
1. inkhorn [n] - See also: inkhorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inkhorns
Literary usage of Inkhorns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten (1866)
"The FIVE inkhorns, we gather from the trades tokens, was the sign of Walter
Haddon, in Grub Street, a very appropriate trade emblem in that scribbling ..."
2. Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, Critical by Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells (1814)
"[Dr. Shaw also speaks of their writers suspending their inkhorns by their aide.
I should not therefore have taken any notice of this circumstance, ..."
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