Definition of Inkpot

1. Noun. A bottle of ink.

Exact synonyms: Ink Bottle
Generic synonyms: Bottle

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

inklessly
inklike
inkling
inklings
inkneed
inknot
inknots
inknotted
inknotting
inkoosi
inkoosis
inkosi
inkosis
inkpad
inkpads
inkpot (current term)
inkpots
inks
inkshed
inkspot
inkspots
inkstand
inkstands
inkstone
inkstones
inkwell
inkwells
inkwood
inkwoods
inky

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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