"inkshed" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of ink + bloodshed. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|ink|bloodshed}} Blend of ink + bloodshed Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} inkshed (uncountable)
  1. The writing of polemical letters or articles. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Writing
    Sense id: en-inkshed-en-noun-7Qyz7zh5 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets:",
          "text": "By our electioneerings and Hansard Debatings, and ever-enduring tempest of jargon that goes on everywhere, we manage to settle that; to have it declared, with no bloodshed except insignificant blood from the nose in hustings-time, but with immense beershed and inkshed and explosion of nonsense, which darkens all the air, that the Right Honorable Zero is to be the man.",
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          "ref": "1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals:",
          "text": "Europeans can hardly understand this truly anomalous phase of our American institutions; they do not understand that it is characteristic that 'we speak daggers but use none'; that we fight with ballots and not with bullets; that we have abundance of inkshed and little bloodshed, and that all that is explosive is blown off through newspaper safety-valves.\"",
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          "ref": "1976, George Griffith, The Mummy and Miss Nitocris:",
          "text": "He smiled gravely as he thought of the inkshed that would come to pass in a combat a l'outrance between the Three Dimensionists and the Four Dimensionists, and how the distinguished scientists on each side would hurl their ponderous thunderbolts of wisdom against each other.",
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