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There the pitcher stands   A fragment, and the spoutless tea-pot there;   Sad witnesses how close-pent man regrets   The country, with what ardour he contrives   A peep at nature, when he can no more.

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William

Olpe, ol′pē, n. a small Greek even-rimmed spoutless vase or jug.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

And when black coffee was made in a blacker, spoutless, battered, dirty-looking coffee-pot Roger Hapgood put out a hand, uninvited, for the tin cup.

From Under Handicap A Novel by Gregory, Jackson