tea-clipper

Noun

tea clipper (plural tea clippers)

1. A clipper or fast-sailing vessel formerly employed in the tea trade.
   • There was the Lightning whose record of thirteen days from Boston to Liverpool, many a steam freighter today cannot beat. There was the Flying Cloud, that sailed from New York around the Horn to Frisco in eighty-nine days. Famous clippers both of them, like the Hurricane, Stag Hound, and the Great...1929 February 3, Warren Irvin, “Gallant Wooden Vessels Survive; Stanch Ships from the Era of Sail and the Early Days of Steam Are Still in Use Though Dying One by One Ended as a Coal Hulk. […]”, in...