Definition of "ink-pot" [ink-pot]

• An inkhorn; an inkholder. (noun)
• Pedantic: same as inkhorn.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Ink, from his cracked ink-pot, indigo rivulets and dribbling deltas …"
• "Like a good little toady, I slipped out of the saddle and gathered them up, and without thinking set them on the table and put the ink-pot on top of them, to hold them steady - a simple, ordinary thing, but I heard an exclamation, and looked up to see Duff Mason, one of the infantry colonels, staring at me in surprise."
• "Lady Hester accepted it, smiling to herself as she dipped the end in the ink-pot."