kettle
/ˈkɛ.təl/ · noun
Meaning
- A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- A vessel for boiling water for tea.
- A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- A steam locomotive
- (of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
- A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.
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