pompet

English

Etymology

Old French pompette.

Noun

pompet (plural pompets)

1. (historical, printing) A ball used for inking the type.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pompet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• moppet

Latin

Verb

pompet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of pompō