TEAPOY
\tˈiːpɔ͡ɪ], \tˈiːpɔɪ], \t_ˈiː_p_ɔɪ]\
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By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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A three-legged table, with a lifting top, inclosing tea-caddies, or a small stand for holding tea-cup, sugar-bowl, cream-jug, etc. "Teapoy is in England often supposed to have connection with tea; but it has no more than Cream o' Tartar has with Crim Tartary. It is a word of Anglo-Indian importation, viz. tipai, an Urdu or Anglo-Indian corruption of the Pers. sipai, tripos (perhaps to avoid confusion with seapoy), and meaning a three-legged table, or tripod generally."-H. Yule.
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By Thomas Davidson
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