inkshed humorous.
(ˈɪŋkʃɛd)
[f. ink n.1 + -shed, after bloodshed.]
The shedding or spilling of ink; consumption or waste of ink in writing.
| 1672 Marvell Reh. Transp. Wks. 1776 II. 58 To spare mine own pains, and prevent ink-shed [etc.]. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 94 But to avoid more Ink-shed in these Tales of Blood-shed, let's fall on some that are of a Jocunder Humour. 1759 Sterne Tr. Shandy II. ii, Terrible battles, yclept logomachies, have they occasioned and perpetuated with so much gall and ink-shed. 1850 Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iii. 17 With no blood-shed..but with immense beershed and inkshed. |