teapoy

Teapoy, tē′poi, n. a small table for the tea-service, &c.

A short time afterwards, he found nailed to a teapoy a paper scroll containing a jasmine flower tied up with coloured threads.

William Jaquith went to a certain corner and brought out a teapoy of violet wood, which he set down at the old lady's elbow.

Dr. John Dunn, the physician at Tshikapa, had started at dawn to meet me, and my teapoy adventures, for the moment, were ended.

The "teapoy boy," as he is called, is as much a part of the African scheme of life as a driver or a chauffeur is in America.