tea pot

tea pot (plural tea pots)

1. 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, 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.