The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penwiper \Pen"wip`er\, n. A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.
Wiktionary
n. A cloth or other material for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.
Wikipedia
Penwiper is a common name that can refer to a number of plant species in different nations.
In Britain and Africa it usually refers to Kalanchoe marmorata
In New Zealand it usually refers to one of the species of alpine plants of the genus Notothlapsi - usually Notothlapsi rosulatum.
Usage examples of "penwiper".
Two crocheted antimacassars, a pansy penwiper, and half a dozen rock cakes.
I thought hopefully, bringing me a hot water bottle or a penwiper or something, and if her sensibilities are offended by a stockinged foot, so be it.
The diary was open, with the pen and the carnation penwiper covering the bottom two-thirds of the page.
She should have bought a penwiper at the jumble sale, I thought irrelevantly.
You may be Miss Blank, subsisting in a bed-sitting-room without very much to live for or many people to care whether you live or not, but for a pound or two a year you can battle for lost causes, sail beyond Ultima Thule, ascend into the stratosphere, love and be courted, adorn a glittering throng with your glamorous presence, tumble over a corpse on the mat, probe the mystery of the Poisoned Penwiper, and never have a dull moment.
I bought back through the net with me, it had to be something I could slip onto the fancy goods table without being caught, and penwipers are small.
I thought despairingly of the sweet-pea penwipers I would have to purchase.
The roses were still in bloom, and the peonies, destined to serve as prototypes for countless penwipers, were still just coming out.
She flounced off with her penwipers, and as we were leaving the church, she was walking up Bayley Lane, her long nose in the air.
A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog.
Ones got to buy something, and since I couldnt bring anything I bought back through the net with me, it had to be something I could slip onto the fancy goods table without being caught, and penwipers are small.
Penwipers, crocheted antimacassars, hair wreaths, Prince Albert, Flush, frock coats, sexual repression, Ruskin, Fagin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Bernard Shaw, Gladstone, Galsworthy, Gothic Revival, Gilbert and Sullivan, lawn tennis, and parasols.
The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
Oneâs got to buy something, and since I couldnât bring anything I bought back through the net with me, it had to be something I could slip onto the fancy goods table without being caught, and penwipers are small.
Sheâd send me back to try again, or, worse, sheâd put me back on jumble sale duty, with all those dreadful penwipers and embroidered tea cloths and hard-as-rock cakes.