caddy

A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.

The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.

A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.

A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.

A small lidded bin for food waste.

A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.

Place the disc in the DVD caddy.

A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.

Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”).

Caddy, pass me my five iron.

As caddy I had to carry the clubs, for there are four varieties almost everyone used, and some used more. Besides doing this, the caddy has to keep score of the number of strokes used, and watch and find each ball.

Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)

I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.