Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small reservoir for ink.
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- noun A
container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person mayconveniently dip apen into it whenever arefill is needed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ink is very viscous and the inkwell is a very thin tube.
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And sure enough, when I push the stopper on the "inkwell" the glass tank turns red, and the doomed creatures become extinguished.
“uncharted pages from a voyage of the beagle” Alpha Auer 2008
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And sure enough, when I push the stopper on the "inkwell" the glass tank turns red, and the doomed creatures become extinguished.
Archive 2008-11-01 Alpha Auer 2008
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I started my writing life in the 1940s as an elementary student at the Washington School in Medford, Massachusetts, using a steel-nibbed pen and an inkwell, so I have lived through every technology.
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I made this core-formed vessel especially shallow so that I could have something completely vitreous to use as an inkwell.
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The museum has the inkwell Abraham Lincoln used to write the Emancipation Proclamation.
Smithsonian dispatches curator to collect from Wisconsin debates 2011
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On his desk, the inkwell sat in a precise line with the quill holder and the wax seals.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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Umber set a feathered pen and an inkwell on the desktop and pulled a stool out of the corner of the room.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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The plates used to make Browne's illustrations for "David Copperfield" are here, as are Dickens's traveling inkwell and an ivory seal given to him by his best friend and future biographer, John Forster.
The Best of Dickens's Life and Times Julia M. Klein 2011
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I started my writing life in the 1940s as an elementary student at the Washington School in Medford, Massachusetts, using a steel-nibbed pen and an inkwell, so I have lived through every technology.
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