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inkpot

(ˈɪŋkˌpɒt)
n
a pot containing ink
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.inkpot - a bottle of inkinkpot - a bottle of ink      
bottle - a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
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Translations
kalamář
blækhus
tintatartó
blekbytta
kalamár
mürekkep hokkası

inkpot

[ˈɪŋkpɒt] Ntintero m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ink

(iŋk) noun
a black or coloured liquid used in writing, printing etc. Please sign your name in ink rather than pencil; I spilt red ink all over my dress.
ˈinky adjective
1. covered with ink. inky fingers; Don't touch that wall – your hands are inky.
2. like ink; black or very dark. inky blackness.
ˈinkpot, ˈinkwell nouns
a small pot for ink.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
"Yes, wait a bit," said Denisov, glancing round at the officers, and taking his papers from under his pillow he went to the window, where he had an inkpot, and sat down to write.
You know, Rodion Romanovitch, I threw an inkpot at him--it happened to be standing in the waiting-room by the paper where you sign your name.
"It tends to come in a little inkpot and applied using a brush.
Opportunities Pupils at Abberley Hall are given opportunities in all areas, be it performing arts, reconstructing a Landrover in the DT workshop, fishing in the Inkpot, beekeeping, swimming, daily sport and so much more.
The artist also received numerous awards, such as the Tokyo Anime Lifetime Achievement Award and the INKPOT Award at San Diego Comic-Con.
Nonetheless, my response to the question is always a variation of the same theme -- "why do you use email when you can write a message using a quill and an inkpot and send it via horseback messenger?" A new way of doing things is always going to provoke debate and questions -- and that is a good thing.
Many of the narrators memories--being locked in a "dungeon" at her school, remembering a santur player who hangs himself, witnessing "crazy" Yazdan tied up to a tree during a backyard picnic--cast ominous shadows from the past, but a key scene with a "magic inkpot" in her father's office foreshadows the day in Paris when, given pencils and blank sheets of paper, she will be able to write her way toward a cure.
class="MsoNormalKombani targets to have written 50 books by the time he puts away the inkpot for good.
Amaducci, Randolph, N.J., believes it to be an inkpot used in stenciling drums and barrels.
Petros is depicted handing his inkpot and pen to his pupil Mkrtich, symbolising the transmission of scribal skills to the next generation; two other younger pupils, T'uma and Simeon, are hard at work in the lower register, smoothing out the paper in preparation using heavy flat-bottomed burnishers.
'I have given the inkpot; but I won't give the pen!'
Rasheed announced his own political party 'Awami Muslim League (AML)' with election symbol inkpot and pen.