Kettle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing.
  • n. A teakettle.
  • n. Music A kettledrum.
  • n. Geology A depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice.
  • n. A pothole.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
  • n. The quantity held by a kettle.
  • n. A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle.
  • n. A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
  • n. A collective term for a group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
  • n. A steam locomotive
  • n. A kettledrum.
  • v. To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A vessel of iron, copper, tin, or other metal, of various shapes and dimensions, used for boiling or heating water and other liquids, or for cooking vegetables, etc., by boiling. Compare camp-kettle, tea-kettle.
  • n. A tin pail. [Local, U. S.] A kettledrum.
  • n. figuratively, a cavity or depression suggesting the interior of a kettle.
  • n. Same as kiddle
  • A variant of kittle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
  • n. the quantity a kettle will hold
  • n. a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
  • n. (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gretel    betel    metal    mettle    nettle    petal    resettle    settle    unsettle   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    saucepan    pan    pot    teapot    jug    utensil    bucket    jar    boiler    tub