What is "caldrons"

Usage examples of "caldrons".

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

Besides nearly thirty barrels of flour, corn meal, and dried fruit, and a waxed wheel of yellow cheese, there were bolts of woolen cloth, a pair of kitchen cleavers, two large kettles and three assorted caldrons, two crude shovels, an adz, two sets of iron hinges big enough for a barn door, but no screws or spikes.

Blynnal passed, carrying one of the caldrons filled with sauce and meat.