inkbottle

plural inkbottles

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ink bottle.

   "Ay, but a notary out of work, with his ink[-]bottle dry," said another bystander, very much out at elbows.

   1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Shipwrecked Stranger”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 32

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   It's a precious dark set of offices, and in the room where I sit, there's a high fender, and an iron safe, and some cards about ships that are going to sail, and an almanack, and some desks and stools, and an inkbottle, and some books, and some boxes, and a lot of cobwebs, and in one of 'em, just over my head, a shrivelled-up blue-bottle that looks as if it had hung there ever so long.

   1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “In Which Some More First Appearances Are Made on the Stage of These Adventures”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 27

   In the middle stood the two philanthropists they were in search of, freely bedaubed with tallow, one employed in boxing a boy's ears, the other in saving a huge inkbottle whereon some enterprising spirit had just laid hands by way of varying the rebel ammunition.

   1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere