spirit-stand en · NOUN
Meanings
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A stand for a pot, kettle, etc., that has an in-built spirit container below for keeping the contents of the pot heated.
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.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| spirit-stands | Number=Plur | lexicographic |