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kettle definition

ket·tle (ket′'l)

noun

  1. a metal container for boiling or cooking things; pot
  2. a teakettle
  3. a kettledrum
  4. Geol.
    also kettle hole
    1. a depression in glacial drift remaining after the melting of an isolated mass of buried ice
    2. a kettle-shaped hole in rock, gravel, etc.

Etymology: ME ketel < ON ketill, akin to OE cetel, Ger kessel, Goth katils, early Gmc loanword < L catillus, dim. of catinus, container for food

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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