transitive. To cause (tea) to undergo the extraction of flavour from the leaves; to allow (tea) to infuse.

transitive. To prepare (an article of food or drink) for consumption. to make meat (now regional): to prepare food.

transferred. ‘To make by mixing several ingredients’ (Johnson), as whisky punch; or by infusion, as tea.

To steep or drench (a plant, etc.) in a liquid, so as to extract its soluble properties; to macerate.

To infuse (tea) by pouring boiling water on the leaves; also with tea-leaves as object. dialect and colloquial.

intransitive. British slang. To make tea in a billycan or the like (cf. drum, n.1 10d). Later also: to prepare a meal under rough-and-ready…

intransitive. Of tea: to brew or infuse. Also occasionally transitive: to brew (tea). Cf. mash, v.1 7 and mask, v.3 2.