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Definition of Inkpot
1. Noun. A bottle of ink.
Definition of Inkpot
1. Noun. A pot for holding ink; inkwell. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inkpot
1. an inkwell [n -S] - See also: inkwell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inkpot
Literary usage of Inkpot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Victorians: Memories and Personalities by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1916)
"... Prime Minister in Downing Street—What he looked and said—Repeated constitutionals
from the standing desk to the inkpot and writing-table—His narrative ..."
2. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"I dip my nose, or try to, into the inkpot as often as I can; but it's as if there
were no ink there, and I take it out smelling gunpowder, smelling blood, ..."
3. Sobriquets and Nicknames by Albert Romer Frey (1887)
"A sobriquet conferred both upon Raymond Lully and the German mystic Johann Tauler.
Doctor inkpot. A nickname given to John Standish, who, says Wood, ..."
4. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"But the male (as well as herself) had been an inkpot, or rather, lived in a
champaign-country where each tree had an inkpot at its roots. ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Ли inkpot, ink- botle, ... lo all men how many wordes we have fetcht from thence
within th-'se few yeeres, which, if they should be all counted inkpot ..."
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