INKSTAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inkstand mean? 

• INKSTAND (noun)
  The noun INKSTAND has 2 senses:

1. a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped

2. a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink

  Familiarity information: INKSTAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INKSTAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

inkstand; inkwell

Hypernyms ("inkstand" is a kind of...):

well (a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("inkstand" is a kind of...):

tray (an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food)

 Context examples 

I came to look for you, and after waiting a little while in hope of your coming in, was making use of your inkstand to explain my errand.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"You'd have nothing but horses, inkstands, and novels in yours," answered Meg petulantly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For he saw me glance, involuntarily, at the prospect on the inkstand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There were also some rather commonplace pictures of river scenery, a paint-box, a box of colored chalks, some brushes, that curved bone which lies upon my inkstand, a volume of Baxter's 'Moths and Butterflies,' a cheap revolver, and a few cartridges.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"There never was such a cross family!" cried Jo, losing her temper when she had upset an inkstand, broken both boot lacings, and sat down upon her hat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We found him hard at work with his inkstand and papers, refreshed by the sight of the flower-pot stand and the little round table in a corner of the small apartment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To Jo I leave my breastpin, the one mended with sealing wax, also my bronze inkstand—she lost the cover—and my most precious plaster rabbit, because I am sorry I burned up her story.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You come round here to the left, out of this gate, tracing his finger along the inkstand, and exactly where I hold this pen, there stands the house—facing, you understand, towards the church.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled high with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I looked at nothing, that I know of, but I saw everything, even to the prospect of a church upon his china inkstand, as I sat down—and this, too, was a faculty confirmed in me in the old Micawber times.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)