noun
a perforated, spoonlike object used as a tea strainer and having a hinged, convex lid.
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Origin of tea maker
First recorded in 1835–45
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How to use tea maker in a sentence
The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
A year before he had similarly arrived with news of the Boston Tea Party.
Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the Tea Party.
“I happened upon yak butter tea, a traditional high-energy food eaten by Tibetans,” Asprey says.
Adults prepare food and drink dark sweet tea on the doorsteps of their homes as they watch their children playing.
Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.
Afterwards we saw you once or twice at tea at the Ritz, and you took off your hat, so you must have remembered then.
Janet might have said before leaving: "Tea had better not wait too long--Hilda has to be down at Clayhanger's at half-past six."
The tea was all laid on tables in the garden, and the sausages were cooking over a fire made on the grounds.
The glorious sun was strong in his might, and, like his Maker, warmed the northern world into exuberant life.
British Dictionary definitions for tea maker
noun
a device with perforations used to infuse tea in a cup of boiling waterAlso called (esp Brit): infuser, tea egg
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