Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pompet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pompet.
- noun (Print.) a ball for inking types; a pompet.
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- noun Alternative form of
pompet .
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Examples
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Hvordan fik man pumpet militæret op til at håndtere to større krige på én gang?
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For it is not probable, nor is there any appearance of truth in this saying, that at Paris upon a little bridge the hen is proportionable, and were they as copped and high-crested as marsh whoops, if veritably they did not sacrifice the printer's pumpet-balls at Moreb, with a new edge set upon them by text letters or those of a swift-writing hand, it is all one to me, so that the headband of the book breed not moths or worms in it.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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