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TEAPOY

\tˈiːpɔ͡ɪ], \tˈiːpɔ‍ɪ], \t_ˈiː_p_ɔɪ]\

Definitions of TEAPOY

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English

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An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A three-legged table, with a lifting top, inclosing tea-caddies, or a small stand for holding tea-cup, sugar-bowl, cream-jug, etc. "Teapoy is in England often supposed to have connection with tea; but it has no more than Cream o' Tartar has with Crim Tartary. It is a word of Anglo-Indian importation, viz. tipai, an Urdu or Anglo-Indian corruption of the Pers. sipai, tripos (perhaps to avoid confusion with seapoy), and meaning a three-legged table, or tripod generally."-H. Yule.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

t[=e]'poi, n. a small table for the tea-service, &c. [Hind. t[=i]p[=a]i--Pers. s[=i]p[=a]i.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Small three- or four-legged table esp. for tea. [Hindi]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

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