What is "caldron"

Usage examples of "caldron".

She pressed her back against the cool stone and saw seven robed Magi standing in a circle around a tripod holding a large orichalcum caldron.

It was a cry for the benefit of all the shortchanged everywhere, spoken out of a caldron of social outrage and cosmic inspiration and flat beer.

Already clerics were readying piles of heavy stones and lighting fires under waiting caldrons of pitch.

Something perhaps worse than icebergs which herd ships into the waiting caldrons of maneaters.

Rumbling caldrons to the rear spit drops of boiling mud on their unprotected backs.

At his command a torch was thrust into a caldron of pitch, and a sheet of fire poured down on the attackers.

The sorceress bent over a small iron caldron hanging above a flickering fire.

Now she tended to the steaming caldron, adding a few more odds and ends from the numerous pouches strung along her belt.

In a little while the caldron began to steam and boil, filling our rude courtyard with the scent of mutton stew.

Pulling the caldron close, I ate some of the leftover stew and looked around.

Nearby, another fire was burning beneath an iron tripod from which was suspended a great black caldron in which a thick stew of beans, salt pork, and turnips was cooking.

He seemed satisfied with this and hunkered down beside the fire while I filled the caldron and gathered a few ingredients.

The dark undercurrent of fretfulness and unease bubbled away like a caldron on the boil.

There was also a caldron, two smaller pots, and an assortment of vessels of various sizes made of pottery, stone, and wood.

Two women were tending a large iron caldron when the company of four strong men bore me in.