Kettle

Quick meaning: Kettle is a noun meaning (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

Meaning

(cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

More Meanings

1. The quantity held by a kettle.
2. A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
3. (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
4. (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
5. (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
6. (music) A kettledrum.
7. An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

Example Sentences

a kettle of hawks

Near-synonym: cauldron

There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.

Well, we're really in a kettle now, aren't we?

Word Forms

• kettles
• kettling
• kettled

Synonyms for kettle

Depending on context, synonyms include teakettle, cauldron, pickle, bind, calvary, cross.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kettleful, boiler, tympani, tympanum, timpani, kettledrum.

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