pencase
English
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- A box or case for storing a pen.
- 1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law:
- The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.