Crossword clues for kettle
kettle
- Mother's whistler
- Large pot
- It may let off steam
- Household whistler
- Whistling vessel
- Steam source, at times
- Hot whistler
- Handled vessel
- "Fine" holder of fish?
- Word from Old Norse for "cauldron"
- Whistling tea appliance
- Where some chips are made
- Water-boiling device
- Type of popcorn
- Stovetop pot
- Stovetop fixture
- Stove-top item
- Range whistler
- One that whistles on a range
- Non-nautical vessel
- Metaphorical fish holder
- Metaphorical fish container
- Ma and Pa of movies
- Ma and Pa ___
- Ma & Pa of film
- Kitchen boiler?
- Jambalaya cooker
- It may whistle in the kitchen
- Hot water holder
- Fish holder, sometimes
- Fish cooker
- Domestic appliance that can whistle?
- Container for boiling
- Chef's vessel
- Brewing pot
- Boiler with a spout
- Boil water in this
- ___ Chips (brand of crispy snacks)
- It lets off steam
- Shape of a certain drum
- Whistler, of a sort
- Stovetop vessel
- Where something may be brewing
- One whistling in the kitchen?
- One letting off steam
- ___ corn (sweet-and-salty snack)
- Salvation Army donation receptacle
- One blowing off steam?
- "That's a fine ___ of fish!"
- A metal pot for stewing or boiling
- Usually has a lid
- A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- Mother's whistler?
- Ma or Pa of movies
- Pot
- Vessel on the range
- What the pot called black
- Tea need
- Caldron
- Vessel for boiling water
- A Whistler in the kitchen?
- Water boiler
- Riot control in a heated situation?
- Kitchen utensil
- Kitchen appliance
- Kind of drum
- Cooking vessel
- Kitchen implement
- Type of drum
- Kitchen whistler
- Metal container
- Boiling point?
- Whistler, at times
- Water heater
- Stovetop whistler
- Boiler on a range
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kettle \Ket"tle\ (k[e^]t"t'l), n. [OE. ketel; cf. AS. cetel, cetil, cytel; akin to D. kjedel, G. kessel, OHG. chezzil, Icel. ketill, SW. kittel, Dan. kjedel, Goth. katils; all perh. fr. L. catillus, dim. of catinus a deep vessel, bowl; but cf. also OHG. chezz[=i] kettle, Icel. kati small ship.] A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.]
--Shelton.
Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at
the head and tail of a book.
--Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cetil (Mercian), from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (compare Old Saxon ketel, Old Frisian zetel, Middle Dutch ketel, Old High German kezzil, German Kessel), probably from Latin catillus "deep pan or dish for cooking," diminutive of catinus "bowl, dish, pot." One of the few Latin loan-words in Proto-Germanic, along with *punda- "measure of weight or money" (see pound (n.1)) and a word relating to "merchant" that yielded cheap (adj.). "[I]t is striking that all have something to do with trade" [Don Ringe, "From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic," Oxford 2006]. Spelling with a -k- (c.1300) probably is from influence of Old Norse cognate ketill. The smaller sense of "tea-kettle" is attested by 1769.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. Category:en:Cookware and bakeware 2 The quantity held by a kettle. 3 (context British English) A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle. 4 (context geology English) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole. 5 (anchor: Raptors)(context ornithology English) A collective term for a group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migration. 6 (context rail transport slang English) A steam locomotive 7 (context musical instruments English) A kettledrum. vb. (context British of the police English) To contain demonstrators in a confined are
WordNet
n. a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid [syn: boiler]
the quantity a kettle will hold [syn: kettleful]
(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits [syn: kettle hole]
a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it [syn: kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A kettle (kettle hole, pothole) is a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of ice calving from glaciers and becoming submerged in the sediment on the outwash plain. Another source is the sudden drainage of an ice-dammed lake. When the block melts, the hole it leaves behind is a kettle. As the ice melts, ramparts can form around the edge of the kettle hole. The lakes that fill these holes are seldom more than and eventually become filled with sediment. In acid conditions, a kettle bog may form but in alkaline conditions, it will be kettle peatland.
A kettle, sometimes called a tea kettle or teakettle, is a type of pot, typically metal, specialized for boiling water, with a lid, spout and handle, or a small kitchen appliance of similar shape that functions in a self-contained manner. Kettles can be heated either by placing on a stove, or by their own internal electric heating element in the appliance versions.
A kettle is a vessel for heating water. Kettle may also refer to:
A kettle is a term that birders use to describe a group of birds wheeling and circling in the air. The kettle may be composed of several different species at the same time. Nature photographer M. Timothy O'Keefe theorizes that the word derives from the appearance of birds circling tightly in a thermal updraft "like something boiling in a cauldron." Ornithologist Donald Heintzelman has done more than anyone to popularize the term kettle, using the term at least as early as 1970 in his book Hawks of New Jersey to describe raptor flight, followed by uses in print over four decades. The related terms "caldron" and "boil" are also heard to describe the same sorts of raptor behavior. Osprey-watcher David Gessner, however, claims a Pennsylvania lowland called the Kettle ("der Kessel" in Pennsylvania Dutch), near Hawk Mountain, is the source of the term.
In some species—e.g., the terns of Nantucket—kettling behavior is evidently a way of "staging" a flock in readiness for migration. Pre-migrational turkey vultures kettle by the hundreds in the thermals that rise over Vancouver Island before they venture across the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward Washington State. At Hawk Mountain, broad-winged hawks form kettles in September before flying south. Kettling apparently serves as a form of avian communication—an announcement of imminent departure—as well as a way of gaining altitude and conserving strength.
Usage examples of "kettle".
Well, I gets near the Major at table, and afore me stood a china utensil with two handles, full of soup, about the size of a foot-tub, with a large silver scoop in it, near about as big as a ladle of a maple sugar kettle.
At length they reached a round chamber, some fifty feet across, scattered with low tables and tiny benches round a central open hearth, where a low fire burned and a huge kettle hung from a pair of andirons and a cross-bar.
He slapped his thigh and looked across to where Asch was staring into the fire, waiting for the kettle to boil.
He put a kettle on to make coffee while Mrs Biggs bustled about picking things up and putting them down again in a manner which suggested that a great deal of work was being done but which merely helped to emphasize her feelings.
Can of beere and a bisket of bread to stay their stomacks till the kettle be boiled.
Afterward there was dancing, even an improvised bong dance with a kettle instead of the steel drum, which His Majesty joined but Her Majesty disdained.
Dilly sitting by the ingle, her hair hanging down, waiting for some weak Trinidad shell cocoa that was in the sootcoated kettle to be done so that she and he could drink it with the oatmealwater for milk after the Friday herrings they had eaten at two a penny with an egg apiece for Maggy, Boody and Katey, the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper, in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or if not, ember days or something like that.
Moira ladled a cup of comfrey and borage from the kettle Eibhlin kept hot on the fire.
The lid of the kettle was of heavy cast iron, and fitted tightly, but McCoy now plastered it about with clay before he filled his sawn calabash with water and stood a pewter half-pint on a rock, where it would catch the drip from the coil.
Gruppen II and III into Hauptgruppe a for cryptography, Gruppen IV and V into Hauptgruppe b for cryptanalysis, each with its own head who reported to Kettler.
As the three lancers pass the south side of the square in the early-morning light, Lorn can see a number of people under the porch of the Cuprite Kettle, the largest inn in Assyadt.
She breathed, hardly hearing Cassil moving around, tucking the baby into a blanket on the sleeping shelf, poking the fire into a blaze, swinging the dap kettle over the flames.
I was taken up with the canoness and did not stir, and consequently Kettler did not notice me, while the lady in great delight at seeing me left him no time to examine his guests, and he was soon talking to some people at the other end of the room.
In the common room, Ayrlyn was breaking off a number of chunks of dried meat and easing them into the iron kettle that hung over the hearth.
She paused, and Saken and Erdene picked up the kettle and poured steaming water down over the wool, hair, and mat, soaking every inch.