tea-strainer

1. 1.

   a device to keep back tea leaves when pouring a cup of tea

   Broaderstrainer

Questions about tea-strainer

What does tea-strainer mean?

tea-strainer means "a device to keep back tea leaves when pouring a cup of tea".

How many syllables are in tea-strainer?

tea-strainer has 4 syllables and divides as te-a--strai-ner under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is tea-strainer a common word?

tea-strainer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.