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      kettle
      noun
      (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
      A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
      The quantity held by a kettle.
      (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
      (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
      (music) A kettledrum.
      An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
      (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
      (slang) A watch (timepiece).
      A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
      A surname.
      An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States, named after a creek.
      An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia, United States, named after a summit.
      Synonym of Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland.
      Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”). [A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.]
      verb
      (originally British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
      (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
      Roots
      catilluskettle- · Latin · small bowl/deep pan
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