Fishkettle

Quick meaning: Fishkettle is a noun meaning Alternative form of fish kettle.

Meaning

Alternative form of fish kettle.

Example Sentences

After a while she got up to go downstairs and check with the cook about dinner. There was to be salmon, an enormous beast poached in one of The Court’s giant fishkettles.

“[…] There’s some copper.” / “Not galleons and men-in-armour fire-irons?” / “No, real old stuff. Fishkettles and things. And a gorgeous slop pail covered in the proverbial violets, would you believe?”

Mrs Panton advised that a thrifty middle-class kitchen could survive with only six saucepans of ‘medium quality’ though achieving a sophisticated range of dishes required an array of stewpans, fishkettles, sauté pans, steamers, boilers, sieves, colanders, moulds, funnels, dredgers and so on.

I’ve written out a chit for two of those old fishkettles Surgical Stores got on their back shelves. […] The whole of Florence was now closed; isolation notices were going up like bunting; and Dodds had lit the anthracite stove, put up the old ping-pong table and installed fishkettles and his primus in the Lecture Room renamed by the entire staff, the Leper Colony.

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• fishkettles

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