Definition of "tea-tray" [tea-tray]

• A tray for serving tea, transporting tea-things, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Shaw's production, enacted on a split-level platform in Tom Pye's clean design, lit by Peter Mumford, bristles with detail: the maid who trips on the bottom stair, the housekeeper who brings menace to the simple act of carrying a tea-tray."
• "The maid positively twinkled as she gathered up the tea-tray and prepared to leave."
• "She noticed the letters and notes heaped on the table among his gloves and sticks; then she found herself in a small library, dark but cheerful, with its walls of books, a pleasantly faded Turkey rug, a littered desk and, as he had foretold, a tea-tray on a low table near the window."