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Inkwell & Slate

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A few of the words

INKWELL
Desks in 19th- and early 20th-century schoolrooms were often fitted with a small round hole near the top right corner, sized precisely to cradle a ceramic inkwell within easy dipping reach.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NIB
A steel nib's split tip created just enough flex to vary line thickness with pressure, a light touch produced a thin upstroke, while pressing down on the downstroke gave the letter its characteristic weight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
COPYBOOK
The phrase 'blotting your copybook', meaning to spoil your reputation, comes directly from the schoolroom: a stray ink drop on a copybook's model page was a visible, lasting mark against your care and character.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CURSIVE
Connected cursive script was prized not just for elegance but for speed, lifting the pen repeatedly between letters slowed the hand, and a flowing joined style let a practiced writer keep pace with a teacher's dictation.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Inkwell & Slate: a free large-print word search

Inkwell & Slate, a free, large-print word search evoking the dipped pen, the careful loop, and the soft scratch of chalk on slate.

About Inkwell & Slate

Before the ballpoint arrived on every desk, a student's morning began with uncapping the inkwell and selecting a nib, and every stroke had to be deliberate. Penmanship was a subject in itself: the copybook set the ideal letterform and the student traced it, again and again, until the loop of each cursive letter came naturally. A blotter stood by to press away the excess, and a wet sponge wiped the slate clean for the next lesson, leaving nothing behind but the faint smell of chalk dust in the air.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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