kettle

Speech parts

1. kettle - Noun

2. kettle - Verb

3. Kettle - Proper noun

Meaning

A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

boiler kettledrum tympanum timpani tympani kettle hole kettleful billy brazier hod kama vat oolong alembic basin
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Antonyms

water cooler

Hypernyms

hole pot hollow percussion instrument containerful percussive instrument

Hyponyms

teakettle

Phrases with the word

kettle of fish pot calling the kettle black pot, meet kettle hi pot, meet kettle fine kettle of fish pretty kettle of fish

Examples

Human 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

Close letter words and terms

Ketterling Ketterman kettisol kettle bomb kettle bottom kettle cable