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tea-urn

tea-urn noun: an urn or pot, with a gravity-fed tap at the bottom, used to hold hot water, hot tea or hot coffee.

Noun

tea-urn (plural tea-urns)

  1. An urn or pot, with a gravity-fed tap at the bottom, used to hold hot water, hot tea or hot coffee.
    • With the money that you have in hand, you may purchase, my dear, at your most convenient time, a tea-urn; that which we have at present having never been handsome, and being now old and patched.1836, William Cowper, The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations, With a Life of the Author, page 44

Forms of tea-urn

pluraltea-urns
alternative formtea urn

Questions about tea-urn

What does tea-urn mean?
Tea-urn means an urn or pot, with a gravity-fed tap at the bottom, used to hold hot water, hot tea or hot coffee.
What part of speech is tea-urn?
Tea-urn is a noun.
What is the plural of tea-urn?
The plural of tea-urn is tea-urns.

Words near tea-urn in the dictionary

  1. tea-times
  2. tea-towel
  3. tea-towels
  4. tea-tray
  5. tea-trays
  6. tea-urn
  7. tea-urns
  8. tea-water
  9. tea-waters
  10. tea-whisk
  11. tea-whisks

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