kettle

About 2.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.

2. noun The quantity held by a kettle.
3. noun A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.

   Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.

4. noun A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
5. noun A group of raptors swirling and spiraling upward as they ride a thermal, especially when migrating.

   a kettle of hawks

6. noun A steam locomotive.
7. noun A kettledrum.
8. noun An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

Similar words

kettleful boiler tympani tympanum timpani kettledrum cauldron jar caldron pot

Often followed by

of and on was to with is in or

Word family

kettled kettles kettling kettlings