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kettle
/ˈkɛ.təl/
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What does kettle mean?
noun
- A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
More meanings (16)
noun
- A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- A group of raptors swirling and spiraling upward as they ride a thermal, especially when migrating.
- (slang) A steam locomotive.
- A kettledrum.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
- A type of encirclement.
- (figuratively) Ellipsis of kettle of fish.
- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
verb
- To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
- Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
proper noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States, named after a creek.
- An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia, United States, named after a summit.
- Synonym of Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɛ.təl/
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Mrs. Radford had done all the little jobs preparatory to going to bed, had locked the door and filled the kettle.
And she seized the little Half-Chick by his one wing and threw him into a kettle of water on the fire.
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Next she produced several packets of herbs and powders and began adding a portion of each to the contents of the kettle.
The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.
Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.