Traditionally given as a wedding gift in Russia, the two-handled tea kettle known as the samovar has a name that literally means self-boiler, deriving as it does from the Russian same, meaning self, and varit, meaning to boil The word first appeared in English in 1830.
A metal tea-urn typically designed with an internal tube where charcoal is burned to heat the water, and a spigot for dispensing the tea.