tea-clipper

See also: tea clipper

English

Noun

tea-clipper (plural tea-clippers)

  1. Alternative form of tea clipper.
    • 1928 January 26, Seabury Lawrence, “Ship Models Draw Many to Boat Show; FamousFlying Cloud, with Two Record Passages to Coast, an Attractive Exhibit. […]”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 July 2025:
      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.
    • 2005 January 27, Maev Kennedy, “Lottery cash to keep the Cutty Sark ship-shape”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 September 2014:
      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.
    • 2008 June 24, Neil Sears, “Shipping billionaire makes £3.3m donation to restore fire-damaged Cutty Sark”, in Daily Mail‎[3], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 December 2008:
      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.
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