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tea urn

tea urn is the alternative form 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

Forms of tea urn

pluraltea urns

Questions about tea urn

What is tea urn the alternative form of?
Tea urn is the alternative form of tea-urn.

Words near tea urn in the dictionary

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  2. tea trees
  3. tea trolley
  4. tea trolleys
  5. tea trollies
  6. tea urn
  7. tea urns
  8. tea wagon
  9. tea wagons
  10. tea whisk
  11. tea whisks

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