Definition of Tea caddy

1. Noun. A can for storing tea.

Exact synonyms: Caddy
Generic synonyms: Can, Tin, Tin Can
Derivative terms: Caddy

Definition of Tea caddy

1. Noun. A box, tin, jar or pot used to store tea leaves. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Caddy

tea-times
tea-towel
tea-urn
tea-urns
tea and toaster
tea and toasters
tea bag
tea bagged
tea bagging
tea bags
tea ball
tea biscuit
tea bread
tea break
tea caddies
tea caddy (current term)
tea cart
tea carts
tea ceremonies
tea ceremony
tea chest
tea cloth
tea cosey
tea cosies
tea cosy
tea cozey
tea cozie
tea cozies
tea cozy
tea dance

Literary usage of Tea caddy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical by Joshua Dorsey Warfield (1905)
"... inherited "my ciphered china and tea caddy," or, if he preferred, one hundred dollars instead, the said china to go to niece Ann Ridgely Worthington, ..."

2. The Woman's Book: Dealing Practically with the Modern Conditions of Home (1894)
"Délit Tea-caddy. Modern methods of serving have redistributed the relative importance of the different departments of table ware. When the soup, the meat, ..."

3. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1860)
"but he declined to do so. lie, however, received from him a small tea-caddy, which is noir in the possession of his son, the Bev. James Fanons, of York, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"TEA-CADDY, a box, jar, canister or other receptacle for lea. The word is believed to be derived from fatty, the Chinese pound, equal to about a pound and a ..."

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