inkpot

• ink-pot, ink pot

From ink +‎ pot.

inkpot (plural inkpots)

1. A pot for holding ink, which was a necessary complement to pens without a built-in inkwell (such as a quill pen) (such pots were formerly ubiquitous but are now unusual except among people with artistic or historical interest in such pens).

   Hypernyms: pot < container

   Coordinate terms: paintpot, tarpot, gluepot, pastepot

   Near-synonyms: inkwell, inkstand

   • 2009, Hunter Davies, Walk Along the Wall, page 51:

     I remember at school when unspillable inkpots came in and were said to be a brilliant new idea.

• K-point