caddy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small container, such as a box, used especially for holding tea.
2. n. A container for storing a group of items not in use.
3. n. Computer Science A protective case used to load a CD-ROM into a disk drive.
4. n. Variant of caddie.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Same as caddie.
2. n. Same as caddis.
3. n. A ghost; a bugbear.
4. n. Originally, a box containing a catty of tea for exportation; hence, any small package of tea less than a chest or half-chest.
5. n. A box for keeping tea when in use. Tea-caddies contain commonly one, two, or more canisters made of metal.
6. n. Hence Any jar or canister for holding tea.
7. n. A tin can with a lid, for holding water, etc.
8. n. In the tobacco trade, a box 6 to 8 inches square, holding from 10 to 20 pounds.

Wiktionary

1. n. golf One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.
2. v. intransitive, golf To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.
3. n. A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called tea caddy.
2. n. a container to hold objects when not in use.
3. n. (Computers) a container to hold a compact disk, used in some types of compact disk devices, which is inserted into the CD player during playing, or in the case of recordable CD-ROMS, during recording. It is approximately square and thin, slightly larger than the compact disk. However, many CD players have a drawer for the compact disk, requiring no caddy.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player
2. n. a can for storing tea