subs. phr. (Australian).—See quot.

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  1885.  FINCH-HATTON, Advance Australia! viii. ‘QUART-POT’ TEA, as tea made in the Bush is always called, is really the proper way to make it. A tin quart of water is set down by the fire, and when it is boiling hard a handful of tea is thrown in, and the pot instantly removed from the fire.

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