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ˈtea-spoon
a. A small spoon, usually of silver or silvered metal, of a size suitable for stirring tea or other beverage in a cup.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2203/4 Three small gilt Tea Spoons. 1704Ibid. No. 4055/4, 4 Spoons, and 5 Tea-Spoons. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. i, Mr. Welsted..in his agitation knocked the tea-spoon out of his glass of negus. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. lix, We have something in the shape of tea-spoons... But they're Britannia metal.
b. = teaspoonful.
1791J. Woodforde Diary 19 Apr. (1927) III. 266, I took half a very small Tea-Spoon of Ether in Water this Evening. 1935M. Morphy Recipes of All Nations 767 A teaspoon of the mixture is wrapped in..a blanched vine leaf. 1963R. Carrier Great Dishes of World ii. 60/2, 1 level teaspoon dried mustard.
Hence ˈteaspoonful, as much as a tea-spoon will hold; in medical prescriptions taken as equal to 1 fluid-drachm.
1731Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 170 Not above a Tea Spoonful of Water. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 53 A tea-spoonful of the ashes. 1844Emerson Lect., Yng. American Wks. (Bohn) II. 301 Agricultural chemistry..offering by means of a tea-spoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn. 1847J. F. South Housh. Surg. (1880) 27 Adding a teaspoonful of laudanum. 1904M. Corelli God's Gd. Man viii, Two..teaspoonfuls of cream. |