1. kettle - Noun
2. kettle - Verb
3. Kettle - Proper noun
A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHuman speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things. Dolly Parton
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east. Quentin Crisp
But an unwatched kettle over boils. English Proverb
The pot reproaching the kettle. Finnish Proverb
Big fish spring out of the kettle. Dutch Proverb