kettle
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Is kettle a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of kettle?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.Examples: "To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on."; "There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove."
2. (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
3. (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.Examples: "a kettle of hawks"; "Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together."collective
4. (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotiveslang
5. (music) A kettledrum.
6. (slang) A watch (timepiece).slang
verb (English)
1. (originally British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.Examples: "Life for senior officers has been made much easier by the use of counter-terrorism powers, which enable them to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling, is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating."; "A couple of the initial pepper spray incidents went viral on YouTube, one showing very young women screaming hysterically while penned—or is the term for this ‘kettled’?—by bright orange police mesh."
2. (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary