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Definition of Pencil case
1. Noun. A box for holding pencils.
Definition of Pencil case
1. Noun. An object purposed to contain different stationery like pencil, rubber, correction fluid, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pencil Case
Literary usage of Pencil case
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1870)
"... WITH THE PARTICULARS OF AN INSTAN'CE IX WHICH A GOLD PENCIL-CASE PASSED
INNOCUOUSLY THROUGH THE GULLET, STOMACH, AND INTESTINES. By air WM. ..."
2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1837)
"4 is the screw cap, or head of the pencil case ; e is a tube, having a screw cut
on the outside of it, the female screw into which it works being cut in the ..."
3. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... your cherished pencil-case an utterly unreliable time-keeper Nor was this a
matter of wonder, Consider the position of a pencil-case in a boy's pocket. ..."
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