kettle
IPA: kˈɛtʌɫ
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.
- (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
- (music) A kettledrum.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (slang) A watch. Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch)
- A surname.
- A village in Fife council area, near Cupar in Scotland.
- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”) [A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.]
verb
- (originally Britain, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
- (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
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Examples of "kettle" in Sentences
- Is that the pot or the black kettle
- It's a matter of the pot and the kettle.
- So, the pot claims that the kettle quacks.
- The cane juice began in the largest kettle.
- The effect of the pot calling the kettle black.
- Bookworm talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
- John flicked the kettle on and leant against the wall.
- The whole thing reeks of the pot calling the kettle black.
- Terrified at the prospect of loosing the kettle in a chasm.
- If there ever was the case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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