[See quot.] A kind of coffee-pot containing a strainer for the infusion of the coffee, without allowing the grounds to mix with the infusion.
1803. Gents. Mag., LXXIII. 1094. Mr. Biggin some years ago invented a new sort of coffee pot which has been ever since extensively sold under the name of coffee biggins.
1817. Specif. of Ogle’s Patent, No. 4173, for Improvements in tea and coffee pots or biggins.—‘The tea or coffee being put into the canister, placed within the pot or biggin, the boiling water is then poured upon it, and the extract is filtered through the strainer into the exterior pot or biggin.’
a. 1803. Moore, in Mem. & Corr. (1853), I. 97. I had yesterday a long visit from Mr. Biggin … By the bye it is from him the coffee biggins take their name.
