inkshed

Noun

inkshed (uncountable)

1. The writing of polemical letters or articles.
   • 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...1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets
   • 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...1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals