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   Cha (chä), n. [Chin. ch‘a.] [Also chaa, chais, tsia, etc.] Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.
   
   A pot with hot water . . . made with the powder of a certain herb called chaa, which is much esteemed.  Tr. J. Van Linschoten's Voyages (1598).
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]