Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fast-sailing ship engaged in the tea-trade.
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Examples
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One of its tourist attractions, the tea-clipper Cutty Sark – of which the Duke of Edinburgh is a patron – is due to reopen after years of restoration work delayed by a fire.
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I'd like to have one of you go, just to make sure we hear the real figures on that tea-clipper deal they're doing with Struan and Sons.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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I'd like to have one of you go, just to make sure we hear the real figures on that tea-clipper deal they're doing with Struan and Sons.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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I sailed from the port o 'Lun'on in a tea-clipper, of which I was the cook; got out to Hong-Kong all right, shipped a cargo, and off again for old England.
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859
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He's equally at home on the sofa as 'bird flu boffin' for Richard and Judy, at a party conference chairing a panel of MPs discussing carbon trading, or in a royal palace presenting to potential corporate sponsors details of the ground-breaking conservation technology proposed for the historic tea-clipper, Cutty Sark.
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