tea pot (plural tea pots)
- Alternative form of teapot.
1800, H. Glass [Hannah Glasse], Maria Wilson, “Syllabubs, Blanc-mange, Flummery, &c.”, in The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; [...], London: […] J. W. Myers, […], for West and Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185:You may make this syllabub at home, by having new milk made as warm as from the cow, and pouring it out of a tea pot, or any other vessel with a spout, holding your hand very high.
1886 February 1, The Sun[1], volume XCVIII, number 66, Baltimore, Md.:We have reduced our entire line of Brown Tea Pots—Yellow Bowls and Cookingware.
1988, Catherine Dai, Bound feet, page 200:Although she was a rich lady, she maintained some of her peasant mannerisms, like bringing out her age-greasened basket tea cosy which held the old tea pot and four cups inside.