Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "tea-pot".
CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Senator Bird was drawing off his boots, preparatory to inserting his feet in a pair of new handsome slippers, which his wife had been working for him while away on his senatorial tour.
On the tables lay bread, butter, cake in hunches, tea-pots, milk-jugs, sugar-basins--all things to whomso could secure them in the conflict.
The stallkeeper was never without tea-pot of earthenware, cup and rtsam-pa bag.
She took the silver tea-pot from the coloured servant and told him, 'Thank you, Gamat, you can leave us now.
Ukridge, looking younger and more child-like than ever in brown holland, smiled at me over the tea-pot.
In certain walks of life the tea-pot is the refuge in times of stress, trouble or sickness: they give tea to the dying and they put it in the baby's nursing bottle.
Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o' cracked tea-pots and sich like!