urn

English translation: a tea urn

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English term or phrase:urn
Selected answer:a tea urn
Entered by: Carol Gullidge

16:15 Aug 29, 2007
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances / Kitchenware
English term or phrase: urn
Every one has heard the story (...) of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for 60 years (...) - from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier (...) which was heard gnawing out for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn.

What kind of thing do you think this urn is? Tea urn, kettle?
Stéphanie Soudais
France
Local time: 11:13
a tea urn
Explanation:
most likely, in the kitchen, especially as it gave off heat.

Not the same as a kettle, although used for more or less the same purpose
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Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:13
Grading comment
Thank you everyone
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +4a tea urn
Carol Gullidge
3 +2tea pot
Kim Metzger


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
tea pot


Explanation:
One definition in the OED seems to fit: A large metal container, fitted with a tap, in which tea, coffee, etc. is made and kept.

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 04:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  yolanda Speece: According to my trusty Oxford...
15 mins

agree  Mihaela Ghiuzeli: Hi Kim.
16 mins

neutral  Cervin: ...but a teapot isnt normally fitted with a tap
47 mins

neutral  Carol Gullidge: an urn has a tap, and is used for "making tea in quantity" (Chambers (not Collins!)) If you've ever seen one, it's quite different to a kettle!
1 hr
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
a tea urn


Explanation:
most likely, in the kitchen, especially as it gave off heat.

Not the same as a kettle, although used for more or less the same purpose

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
Thank you everyone

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cervin: An urn is much bigger than a kettlew. It mught be used in a catering establishment-unlikely that an ordinary household would use one
31 mins
  -> thanks, Cervin! Definitely much bigger than a kettle, probably unlikely in normal households, although larger households used to have an urn in their big kitchens. Probably the under-maid's job to get it going in the morning. Still used in catering

agree  Alfa Trans (X)
11 hrs
  -> thanks again, Marju!

agree  kmtext: A farmhouse kitchen often feeds many people at once, so an urn would very likely be in everyday use. http://www.jacksons-camping.co.uk/heaters/tea-urns.htm
15 hrs
  -> thanks, kmtext - that's very true!

agree  Elena Aleksandrova
1 day 1 hr
  -> thanks again, Elena!
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