Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tea-clipper

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables: tea--clip-per
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of tea clipper.

Example Sentences

"Two other clipper models which have attracted wide attention at the Motor Boat Show are those of the Sea Witch, one of the early American record breakers, and the famous Cutty Sark, one of the fastest of the British tea-clippers."
"The ship was built for speed in 1869, to get the lucrative first harvest of tea back to market ahead of the competition, and is now the last surviving tea-clipper in the world."
"The 1869 tea-clipper was already under renovation in her dry dock in Greenwich when she was almost destroyed in a huge fire in May last year."

Inflected Forms

tea-clippers (plural)

Questions

What does tea-clipper mean?: Alternative form of tea clipper.

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