spirit-stand

English

Noun

spirit-stand (plural spirit-stands)

A stand for a pot, kettle, etc., that has an in-built spirit container below for keeping the contents of the pot heated.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  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.

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