spirit-stand

English

Noun

spirit-stand (plural spirit-stands)

1. A stand for a pot, kettle, etc., that has an in-built spirit container below for keeping the contents of the pot heated.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.