tea-urn

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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.
    • 1836, William Cowper, The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations, With a Life of the Author, page 44:
      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.

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