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spirit-stand

spirit-stand noun: a stand for a pot, kettle, etc., that has an in-built spirit container below for keeping the contents of the pot heated.

Noun

spirit-stand (plural spirit-stands)

  1. A stand for a pot, kettle, etc., that has an in-built spirit container below for keeping the contents of the pot heated.
    • On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of spirit-stand

pluralspirit-stands

Questions about spirit-stand

What does spirit-stand mean?
Spirit-stand means a stand for a pot, kettle, etc., that has an in-built spirit container below for keeping the contents of the pot heated.
What part of speech is spirit-stand?
Spirit-stand is a noun.
What is the plural of spirit-stand?
The plural of spirit-stand is spirit-stands.

Words near spirit-stand in the dictionary

  1. spirit worlds
  2. spirit-filled
  3. spirit-man
  4. spirit-room
  5. spirit-rooms
  6. spirit-stand
  7. spirit-stands
  8. spiritally
  9. spiritdom
  10. spirited
  11. spirited away

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