Etymology

inkhorn

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Today it means: A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink. Full definition →

Middle English ynkhorn
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromynkhorn
  2. English todayinkhorn

From Middle English ynkhorn, inkehorn (“small portable vessel, originally made of horn, used to hold ink”), equivalent to ink + horn. Displaced Old English blæchorn, which had the same literal meaning but with the native term for "ink."

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