A covered pot with a spout, in which coffee is made or brought on the table.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4112/4. Stolen A Coffee-Pot and a Salver.
1756. J. Warton, Ess. Pope (ed. 4), I. iv. 241. It is, doubtless, as hard to make a coffee-pot shine in poetry as a plough.
1842. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., I. 163. The absence of the loaf or coffee-pot would have been less sensibly felt!