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tea-urns

tea-urns is the plural of tea-urn.

Meaning of tea-urn

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

Questions about tea-urns

What is tea-urns the plural of?
Tea-urns is the plural of tea-urn.

Words near tea-urns in the dictionary

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

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