tea ball

English

Alternative forms

• teaball

Noun

tea ball (plural tea balls)

1. A perforated spherical metal container that holds tea leaves for steeping or brewing in hot water.

   Synonyms: infuser, tea egg

   Coordinate term: tea strainer

   • 1995, Campbell Dawn, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:

     When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.

Translations

spherical metal container

Bulgarian: топка за чай f (topka za čaj), цедка за чай f (cedka za čaj) French: boule à thé (fr) f German: Tee-Ei (de) n (literally “tea egg”) Polish: zaparzaczka (pl) f Sikkimese: ཇ་རིལ (ja ril) Swedish: tepumla c (dialectal)

Further reading

• infuser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “tea ball”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.