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teapot

Kitchen & dining; Tableware

A teapot is a vessel used for steeping tea leaves or a herbal mix in near-boiling water. Tea may be either in a tea bag or loose, in which case a tea strainer will be needed, either to hold the ...

A chocolate teapot is a teapot that would be made from chocolate. It is commonly supposed that such a teapot would melt, and be impossible to use, therefore the term is often used as an analogy for ...

jug

Kitchen & dining; Tableware

A jug is a type of container used to hold liquid. It has an opening, often narrow, from which to pour or drink, and nearly always has a handle. Most jugs throughout history have been made from clay, ...

beer jug

Kitchen & dining; Tableware

In certain countries (especially New Zealand and Australia), a jug refers to a plastic one containing exactly 2 pints (just over a litre) of beer. It is usually served along with one or more small ...

Toby jug

Kitchen & dining; Tableware

It is a pottery jug in the form of a seated person, or the head of a recognizable person (often an English king). Typically the seated figure is a heavily-set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one ...

puzzle jug

Kitchen & dining; Tableware

A puzzle jug is a puzzle in the form of a jug. The challenge of the puzzle — to drink the contents without spillage — is often written on the jug. This is certainly impossible to do in the ...

fuddling cup

Kitchen & dining; Tableware

A fuddling cup is a three-dimensional puzzle in the form of a drinking-vessel, made of three or more cups or jugs all linked together by holes and tubes. The challenge of the puzzle is to drink from ...