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A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.
- There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
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The quantity held by a kettle.
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A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
- Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
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A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
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A group of raptors swirling and spiraling upward as they ride a thermal, especially when migrating.collective
- a kettle of hawks
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A steam locomotive.slang
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A kettledrum.
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An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
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A watch (timepiece).slang
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A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
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To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
- A couple of the initial pepper spray incidents went viral on YouTube, one showing very young women screaming hysterically while penned—or is the term for this ‘kettled’?—by bright orange police mesh.
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Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.intransitive
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Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).alt-ofalternative