What is the meaning of Kettle?

A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

The quantity held by a kettle.

A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.

A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.

A steam locomotive

A kettledrum.

An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

A watch. Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch)

A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.

To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

Alternative form of kiddle (kind of fishweir)

kettle (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)

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