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spirit-stands

spirit-stands is the plural of spirit-stand.

Meaning of spirit-stand

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

Questions about spirit-stands

What is spirit-stands the plural of?
Spirit-stands is the plural of spirit-stand.

Words near spirit-stands in the dictionary

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

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