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pen-case

pen-case is the alternative spelling of pencase.

Meaning of pencase

Noun

pencase (plural pencases)

  1. A box or case for storing a pen.
    • The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get...1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law

Forms of pen-case

pluralpen-cases

Questions about pen-case

What is pen-case the alternative spelling of?
Pen-case is the alternative spelling of pencase.

Words near pen-case in the dictionary

  1. pen'orths
  2. pen-and-ink money
  3. pen-and-paper
  4. pen-and-wash
  5. pen-and-washes
  6. pen-case
  7. pen-cases
  8. Pen-ch'i
  9. Pen-clawdd
  10. pen-driver
  11. pen-drivers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pen-case (page history and authors); pencase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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