Synonyms:
kettle, boiler
Meaning: a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
Usage examples
"Felicity, put on the kettle.
It is no trouble to get the kettle and things brought in.
There was a beautiful fire, and the kettle boiled at once.
Amy set the tea-table in order, and kept the kettle ready. . . .
After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle.
Cut into triangles and drop in a kettle of hot rendered butter; fry until a golden brown.
Hark! how the Cricket joins the music with its Chirp, Chirp, Chirp; and how the kettle hums!
'I should just hope we HAD!' he said; 'I'd give something for a jolly good boiling kettle of lead.
When these ice mountains melted away depressions were left which in some cases have resulted in lakes, and in others simply dry kettle holes.
"So you see," Eric Blount rammed home the moral, "this is just another case of nobody with any right to call anybody else's kettle black.... Cigarette?"