tea-spoonn.
a. A small spoon, usually of silver or silvered metal, of a size suitable for stirring tea or other beverage in a cup.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > spoon > types of
maidenhead1495
slipc1530
Apostle spoon1631
tea-spoon1686
hall-spoon1688
pap spoon1691
tablespoon1741
dessert-spoon1808
salt-spoon1820
monkey spoon1833
Puritan spoon1875
sugar shell1895
seal-top1898
slotted spoon1900
absinthe spoon1905
trifid1927
1686 London Gaz. No. 2203/4 Three small gilt Tea Spoons.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4055/4 4 Spoons, and 5 Tea-Spoons.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 246 Mr. Welsted..in his agitation knocked the tea-spoon out of his glass of negus.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield lix. 586 We have something in the shape of tea-spoons... But they're Britannia metal.
b. = teaspoonful n. at Derivatives.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > spoon as unit
spoonfulc1290
cochleare1708
teaspoonful1732
tablespoonful1755
tea-spoon1791
tablespoon1805
tbs.1950
tsp.1950
1791 J. Woodforde Diary 19 Apr. (1927) III. 266 I took half a very small Tea-Spoon of Ether in Water this Evening.
1935 ‘Countess Morphy’ Recipes All Nations 767 A teaspoon of the mixture is wrapped in..a blanched vine leaf.
1963 R. Carrier Great Dishes of World ii. 60/2 1 level teaspoon dried mustard.
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ˈteaspoonful n. as much as a tea-spoon will hold; in medical prescriptions taken as equal to 1 fluid-drachm.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > spoon as unit
spoonfulc1290
cochleare1708
teaspoonful1732
tablespoonful1755
tea-spoon1791
tablespoon1805
tbs.1950
tsp.1950
1732 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 170 Not above a Tea Spoonful of Water.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 53 A tea-spoonful of the ashes.
1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. 15 Agricultural chemistry..offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn.
1847 J. F. South Househ. Surg. (1880) 27 Adding a teaspoonful of laudanum.
1904 ‘M. Corelli’ God's Good Man viii Two..teaspoonfuls of cream.
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