samovar

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  1. noun A metal urn with a spigot, used to boil water for tea and traditionally having a chimney and heated by coals.

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  • “Thank you.” And beyond the samovar, a beast with a monstrous horn. —  Red As Blood
  • The Q-drive pod jutting ahead like a long battering ram tipped with a samovar, then the antimatter containers amidships that feed the engines at the stern, together form a long central spindle around which the great doughnut of living quarters rotates quickly enough to provide imitation gravity at half a gee. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • Then Kajsa made the tea in a magnificent "samovar," and served it with pretty gracefulness; then she discreetly disappeared. —  The Waif of the "Cynthia"
  • I went to my own room, where the samovar was bubbling its familiar tune and a smiling red-shirted Russian boy was helping my Buriat servant to unpack my wardrobe, and I asked for any back numbers of newspapers that could be supplied at a moment's notice. —  When William Came
  • The water in the samovar was hissing. —  A Daughter of To-Day
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  1. Russian : samo, self; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + varit', to boil.

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  1. from Russian samovarŭ, a tea-urn; regarded in a popular etymology as literally ‘self-boiler’ (cf. Latin authepsa, from Greek αὐθέψης, a kind of urn for cooking, literally ‘self-cooker’), as if from samŭ (in comp. samo-), self, + baritĭ, boil; but prob. from Tatar sanabar, a tea-urn. The Calmuck sanamur is from the Russian word.
 

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