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tea clippers

tea clippers is the plural of tea clipper.

Meaning of 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...

Questions about tea clippers

What is tea clippers the plural of?
Tea clippers is the plural of tea clipper.

Words near tea clippers in the dictionary

  1. tea chest bassists
  2. tea chests
  3. tea clam
  4. tea clams
  5. tea clipper
  6. tea clippers
  7. tea cloth
  8. tea cloths
  9. tea cosey
  10. tea cosies
  11. tea cosy

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