kettlen.
/ˈkɛtl/, U.S. /ˈkɛd(ə)l/ 1.
a. A vessel, commonly of metal, for boiling water or other liquids over a fire; a pot or caldron (cf. camp-kettle n., fish-kettle n., gipsy-kettle); now esp. a covered metal vessel with a spout, used to boil water for domestic purposes, a tea-kettle n.A tea-kettle is sometimes tied by mischievous children to a dog's or cat's tail to frighten the animal. Hence allusively.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > cauldron or kettle
kettlea700
leada1100
cauldronc1300
chetelc1300
stewc1305
chaldron1555
bashron1660
a700 Epinal Gloss. 168 Caccabum, cetil.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 44 Wermod gesodenne on wætere on niwum cytele.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 87 genim þonne tyn-amberne cetel.
a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 264 Lead, cytel, hlædel.
a1300 E.E. Psalter cvii. 10 [cviii. 8] Moab ketel of mi hope is.
a1350 St. Anastasia 84 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 26 Pottes and pannes & oþer slyke Als ketils, crassetes, to kechin like.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 273/2 Ketyl, or chetyle, or caudrone, cacabus, lebes.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. A ij Take for the erthen cappell a copper cappell or kettyll with a copper pype as before is fygured.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 61 She..boils in Kettles Must of Wine. View more context for this quotation
1740 P. Pineda New Dict., Spanish & Eng. (new ed.) Sartèn..We say, The Kettle called the Pot Black-Arse.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) In the kitchen the name of pot is given to the boiler that grows narrower towards the top, and of kettle to that which grows wider.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds i. 1 The family kettle..was singing on the fire.
1928 A. Bennett Strange Vanguard xxx. 202 He saw that he had been cast that night for the role of kettle to a dog's tail.
b. A bowl- or saucer-shaped vessel in which operations are carried out on low-melting metals, glass, plastics, etc., in the liquid state.
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kettlea1817
a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 256 The method of making potash in those large vessels,..now known..[as] potash kettles.
1892 P. Benjamin Mod. Mech. 803 A rendering and refining kettle for making..fancy toilet soap.
1895 E. L. Rhead Metall. xv. 214 The ore is ground to a pulp in the mill, or arastra, and transferred to kettles with bottoms made of copper.
1929 Industr. Chemist V. 487/1 A Pfaudler, all cast-iron, glass-lined, 300-gallon, reaction kettle or chemical still.
1940 H. L. Hind Brewing II. xxiv. 576 The vessel[s] in which the mash is boiled..are usually known as kettles in America.
1952 M. R. Mills Introd. Drying Oil Technol. iii. 48 Oleo-resinous varnishes are commonly produced in portable kettles of 450–3,000 lb...capacity.
1953 Archit. Rev. 114 187/1 The raw materials used in the former process [sc. the manufacture of synthetic resins] are highly inflammable, and it was desirable that the ‘kettles’ in which this process is carried out should be in a separate building.
1955 R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. XIV. 653 Stationary open kettles are used to polymerize large batches of oil.
1967 J. D. Gilchrist Extraction Metall. x. 259 Softening—at 750°C, in a wide, open hearth furnace or in the open saucer-shaped lead ‘kettle’ which presents a very large surface for oxidation, Sb, Sn and As are slowly oxidized out with air or litharge.
2. Phrase. a kettle of fish.
a. On the Tweed, etc. A kettle of fish cooked al fresco, at a boating excursion or picnic; hence, applied to the picnic itself. Also simply kettle.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [noun]
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tea-treatc1748
a kettle of fish1791
scram1831
picnic meal1839
box supper1851
basket-meeting1859
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picnic tea1869
school feast1879
basket picnic1882
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basket dinner1892
basket lunch1905
packed lunch1906
sack lunch1972
brown-bag lunch1976
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun]
gyngawdry?c1390
salomenec1430
sorréc1430
tavorsayc1450
spitchcock1601
minnow tansy1655
kedgeree1662
pepperpot1698
matelote1723
water-souchy1726
pitchcock1739
flibrigo1762
twice-laid1777
ngapi1800
a kettle of fish1823
brandade1825
fish supper1829
truite au bleu1834
sole (à la) Colbert1846
bouillabaisse1855
fish and chips1876
hákarl1879
sashimi1880
timbale1880
gefilte fish1892
stamp and go1893
truite bleue1907
waterzooi1915
accra1919
Bismarck herring1931
gravlax1935
goujon1940
coddie1941
seviche1951
tuna salad1953
crabstick1956
zarzuela1956
sole Véronique1960
fish finger1962
moqueca1980
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 394 It is customary for the gentlemen who live near the Tweed to entertain their neighbours and friends with a Fete Champetre, which they call giving ‘a kettle of fish’. Tents or marquees are pitched near the flowery banks of the river..a fire is kindled, and live salmon thrown into boiling kettles.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. xii. 283 The whole company go to the water-side to-day to eat a kettle of fish.
1881 A. Carter in Picturesque Scot. 111 A ‘kettle’ in Berwick parlance is a picnic party with this specialty about it that fish is the chief thing consumed, and this fish is salmon taken out of the river..and cooked upon the spot.
b. Usually with adjective ironically, as pretty kettle, fine kettle, nice kettle, rare kettle (†also simply a fine kettle): A mess, muddle, disagreeable or awkward state of things. Also, a different or another kettle of fish: a different state of affairs, a different matter altogether.
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hard casec1325
box1546
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little-ease1589
a fine kettle1741
mess1812
how-do-you-do1835
hot mess1867
bed of nails1872
shitter1958
strife1963
the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs
a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530
a different (also another) story1688
something else1844
another pair of shoes1861
a different or another kettle of fish1937
a different cup of tea1940
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 308 He has made a fine Kettle on't,—han't he!
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xi. 74 ‘Here's a pretty Kettle of Fish,’ cries Mrs. Tow-wouse. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. viii. 225 Fine Doings at my House! A rare Kettle of Fish I have discovered at last. View more context for this quotation
1800 Duke of Wellington Let. to Close 2 Oct. in Dispatches (1837) I. 245 If so, we shall have a fine kettle of fish at Seringapatam.
1820 Countess Granville Let. 7 Oct. (1894) I. 184 Ministers are in a nice kettle of fish, to be sure.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. iv. 21 Your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools.
1937 Discovery Nov. 353/1 H. S. Thompson's ‘Garnet in Flight’ is another kettle of fish.
1938 R. Warner Professor vi. 141 Professor..you're very good at thinking out schemes—brainwork, I mean..if you understand what I mean; but that's only half the battle you know, in fact a different kettle of fish altogether.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 172 Until now the word ‘Colonel’ for Basil had connoted an elderly rock-gardener on Barbara's G.P.O. list. This formidable man of his own age was another kettle of fish.
1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia ii. 14 Looking..at a distant village on a very clear day across a valley, is a very different kettle of fish from seeing a ghost.
3. a kettle of hats n. a quantity of hats dyed at the same time in a dye-kettle.
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a kettle of hats1789
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 184 Upon dying a Kettle of hats of twenty-four dozen.
1900 [Still in use in the trade].
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a. ‘The brass or metal box of a compass’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
b. Scottish. Mining. A kind of shallow tub or kibble in which miners descend and ascend the shaft, or in which material is brought to the surface.
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skip1816
kettle1894
1894 Daily News 9 May 7/7 Four pit-sinkers were being drawn up a shaft..when the ‘kettle’ on which they were standing..swung from one side of the shaft to the other and three men fell off.
1894 Labour Commission Gloss. Kettle, a Scotch mining term for the basket or kibble which takes the place of a cage in shafts not provided with ‘guides’..It is like a half-barrel attached to the winding-rope.
c. A deep circular hollow scoured out in a rocky river bed, or under a glacier, etc.; a pot-hole. Cf. giant's kettle n. at giant n. and adj. Compounds 2, also hell-kettle n. Also (now the usual meaning in Geomorphology), a kettle hole n. at Compounds 2 (see sense Compounds 2).
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slack?a1400
swamp1691
cauldrona1763
hog wallow1829
tomo1859
kettle1866
pocket1869
dolina1882
kettle hole1883
frost hollow1895
impact crater1895
uvala1902
frost pocket1907
sotch1910
pingo1938
lagg1939
tafoni1942
1866 Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. No. 197. 3 To form an idea of the appearance of the ‘potash kettle’ country, we may imagine a region of drift moraines inverted, and..occupied by cavities of irregular size and depth.
1866 Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. No. 197. 4 On the north of the Peshattego river..the ‘kettles’ are very numerous.
1877 T. C. Chamberlin Geol. Wisconsin: Surv. of 1873–9 II. ii. v. 206 The peculiar feature of this range..consists of numerous depressions in the drift variously known as ‘Potash Kettles’, ‘Kettles’, ‘Potholes’, ‘Pots and Kettles’, ‘Sinks’, etc. Those which have most arrested popular attention are circular in outline, and symmetrical in form... Large numbers of these depressions are not perfectly circular, but rudely oval, oblong or elliptical, or are extended into trough-like, or even winding hollows.
1877 T. C. Chamberlin Geol. Wisconsin: Surv. of 1873–9 II. ii. v. 214 If masses of the ice became incorporated within the drift,..their subsequent melting would give rise to a depression constituting one form of the kettles.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Kettle, a pot-hole or circular hole, scoured out in a rocky river bed by the swirling action of pebbles.
1894 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 3) xxix. 431 Everyone who has visited the Glacier Garden at Lucerne will remember the fine display of ‘kettles’ seen there.
1896 T. G. Bonney Ice-work i. i. 34 These ‘kettles’, when first discovered, were filled with débris, and still contained the large rounded boulders by which they had been mainly excavated.
1926 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 34 315 The ice blocks that formed the kettles in pitted out-wash varied in size from a few yards to several miles in diameter.
1942 C. A. Cotton Climatic Accidents Landscape-making xxiv. 328 Both bowl-like round pits and elongated trench-like kettles are common.
1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms xi. 384 A bare tract of boulders, gravels and sand separates the two glacier snouts, and is pitted by numerous circular water-filled hollows (‘kettles’) marking small masses of ice that calved from the glaciers, became trapped in the debris, and subsequently melted.
d. A watch. slang (chiefly Criminals').
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clock1559
pocket watch?1576
watch1590
munter1594
tattler1688
loge1699
yack1789
thimble1819
ticker1821
toy1826
super1857
kettle1889
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 516/2 Kettle (thieves), a watch; red kettle, gold watch.
1931 W. F. Brown in Police Jrnl. IV. 500 Henry. ‘Did he get any sparkle?’ George. ‘Yes, a couple of kettles,..a lovely groin and a prop.’
1935 ‘G. Ingram’ Cockney Cavalcade xiv. 234 I pinched his ‘kettle’ what those two blunderers left behind.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xxv. 244 Next buckshee kettle that comes my way I'll just stick to it.
1960 ‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick xvi. 122 Edwin, student of philology, knew what kettles were, cheap smuggled watches guaranteed to go for a day or two.
1970 Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 603/2 A tin kettle is a silver watch and a red kettle a gold one.
e. (See quot.).
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1895 M. Pemberton Impreg. City ii. 6 A small ship's launch, such as sailors call a kettle.
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nakerc1385
canayr1523
naquaire1523
kettle1604
kettledrum1604
atabal1672
timbal1680
tymbalon1817
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 222 Let the kettle to the trumpets speake, The trumpet to the Cannoneere without. View more context for this quotation
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a. (In sense 1.)
kettle-boiling n.
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1897 Daily News 9 Dec. 10/3 A question of cigar-lighting or kettle-boiling.
kettle-hanger n.
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1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iv. 72 A small bit of pork suspended from the kettle-hanger.
kettle-hook n.
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rack1391
reckon1400
hake1402
kilp1425
pot-clip1459
pothangles1468
reckon-crook1469
kettle-hook1485
rax1519
pot hangings1521
pot hangerc1525
pot-crookc1530
pot-hook1530
trammel1537
pot-kilp1542
gallow-balk1583
hale1589
hanger1599
pot-keep1611
pot rack1619
reckon hook1645
ratten crook1665
winter1668
rantle1671
cotterel1674
rantle-tree1685
rannel-balk1781
sway1825
rannel-perch1855
1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 51 Potte hokes..j, ketle hokes..ij.
kettle-iron n.
kettle-lid n.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > lid > types of
pot-lid1404
paten-bred1501
buckler1674
Moor's head1677
screw top1697
sarpush1698
Moor-head1712
saucepan lid1801
screw cap1806
pan lid1841
capsule1858
shutter-front1887
crown cap1898
shutter-lid1901
kettle-lid1903
under-lid1907
1903 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 436 The wobbling of a kettle-lid.
1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Bliss 44 They spent half their time..dosing him with various awful mixtures concocted by Pip, and kept secretly by him in a broken jug covered with an old kettle lid.
kettle-maker n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of domestic utensils > [noun] > maker of kettles
kettle-maker1480
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 44 Ysaac the ketelmaker Gyueth four ketellis.
kettle-prop n.
kettle-scrubber n.
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1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. II. xv. 278 Thus it was I drew her Scouring of a kettle... That sweet kettle-scrubber!
kettle-stand n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > small table
roundel1503
stand1582
night table1730
monopodium1807
teapoy1828
tray stand1844
nightstanda1852
guéridon1853
kettle-stand1881
tabouret1916
1881 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 1 Nov. (1911) II. 367 Found a fine old kettle stand..and a few minutes after had the good luck to find the kettle to fit.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 157/1 Kettle-stand, a special stand which was introduced with tea-drinking in the later 17th-cent., of two main kinds. (a) A small table..with a gallery or raised edge round the top... (b) A box-like arrangement set on four legs.
1970 D. Ash Dict. Eng. Antique Furnit. 92/2 Kettle-stands were lower than contemporary tripod tables so that the kettle, mounted on its lamp-stand, would be at a convenient height.
b. (In sense 4c.)
kettle-formation n.
kettle-valley n.
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1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega II. xv. 291 A high plain..interrupted at many places by deep kettle valleys.
C2. Special combinations: † kettle-fats n. Obsolete = battery n. 14.† kettle-fish n. Obsolete small fish. † kettle-mill n. Obsolete a device for raising water.
kettle-bail n. U.S. a dredge used in taking scallops.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets
Peter netc1280
flue1388
wade1388
stalker1389
shove-net1418
trod-net1523
butt1533
web1533
fagnet1558
seur1558
trimnet1558
trollnet1558
pot-net1584
treat net1584
weir-net1585
hagan1630
henbilt1630
rugnet1630
basket-net1652
landing-net1653
stream-net1662
wolf1725
ram's horn1792
gill net1795
wolf-net1819
trap-net1856
forewheel1861
stow-net1871
lave net1875
kettle-bail1881
beating-net1883
keeve-net1883
net basin1883
wing-neta1884
trap-seine1891
lead-net1910
ghost net1959
1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 245 Kettle bail, a dredge used in catching scallops, which has the blade adjusted to swing in the eyes of the arms, in order to prevent its sinking into the mud of the soft bottom on which it is used.
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 571 The dredge for a soft bottom differs from the other in having the ‘blade’ adjusted to swing in the ‘eyes’ of the arms in order to prevent its sinking into the mud. This is called the ‘kettle-bail’ style of dredge.
kettle-boiler n. an old type of steam-boiler, having a rounded top (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
kettle-bread n. home-made bread, baked under a ‘kettle’ or pot.
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oven bread1600
shell-bread1665
griddle-bread1841
kettle-bread1882
1882 ‘E. Lyall’ Donovan xx. 239 Donovan sat down with the farmer and his wife to broth and ‘kettle bread’.
kettle-broth n. (see quot.).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops
brewisc1440
pain perdua1450
bread and milk1549
sugar-sops1581
Poor Knights1659
breadberry1715
milk toast1840
sop1845
kettle-broth1880
slinger1882
1880 E. G. O'Reilly Sussex Stories II. 187 in Eng. Dial. Dict. ‘Kettle-broth’..consists of pieces of stale bread liberally moistened with boiling water, and besprinkled with salt and pepper.
kettlecase n. a popular name of Orchis mascula.
kettledock n. a popular name of the Ragwort, Senecio jacobæa; also applied to the Broad-leaved Dock, Rumex obtusifolius (Britt. & H., Miller Plant-n.).
kettle-faced adj. having a face as black as a kettle.
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blackeOE
browned-black?c1510
dark?1537
black-faced1581
adust?1586
black-visaged1602
mulatto1622
kettle-faced1680
black-favoured1681
black-a-top1685
brown-complexioned1704
blackavised1721
brunette1724
brune1747
dark-skinned1750
black-looking1753
melanic1826
melanous1836
brunet1840
copper-skinned1873
brown-skinned1904
brown-
1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius ii. 22 I am an honest black tawny Kettle-fac'd Fellow.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > product of > made by hammering
batteryc1503
batter1567
kettle-fats1812
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 107 Metal prepared; and Battery, which are commonly called Kettle Fats. This last is known by the dint of the mill-hammers upon the kettles.
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 69 That no Peter-man..take any Flounders, or any other short Fish which they have usually called Kettle-Fish.
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kettle-furnace n. (a) a basket-furnace in which lead or solder is melted for plumbing; (b) a furnace for heating a kettle.
kettle-holder n. a piece of cloth or the like used in lifting a kettle, to protect the hand from the heated handle; transferred a kind of small bonnet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > other
dulcimer?1767
cottage bonnet1794
cabriolet1797
skyscraper1800
kettle-holder1813
basket-bonnet1824
kiss-me-quick1845
tilt-bonnet1874
granny bonnet1879
toque1881
rain bonnet1909
1813 M. Edgeworth Let. 1 May (1971) 32 After having admired..a picture of Cromwell and Fanny's kettle-holder we sallied forth.
1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe I. vi. 103 Charlotte worked a kettle holder.
1867 Morning Star 17 Sept. 5 The small bonnets, which are known as ‘kettle-holders’.
1887 Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. 1 612/2 A kettle-holder in Berlin wool.
kettle hole n. a depression in the ground thought to have been formed by the melting of an ice block trapped in glacial deposits, esp. one that is circular and deep; frequently attributive in kettle-hole lake = kettle lake n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > other
slack?a1400
swamp1691
cauldrona1763
hog wallow1829
tomo1859
kettle1866
pocket1869
dolina1882
kettle hole1883
frost hollow1895
impact crater1895
uvala1902
frost pocket1907
sotch1910
pingo1938
lagg1939
tafoni1942
the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types
pene-lake1668
salina1697
slough1714
salt lake1763
bayou1766
lagoon1769
cut-off1773
prairie1820
maar1826
boating lake1834
serpentine1837
soda lake1839
bitter lake1843
stream-lake1867
shott1878
crater-lake1879
playa1885
oxbow lake1887
kettle-hole lake1902
mortlake1902
oxbow1902
seepage lake1934
paternoster lake1942
soda pan1976
1883 Proc. 31st Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 395 The kames of Cherry Valley..are composed of stratified water-worn gravel,..and, as a series of conical hills and reticulated ridges, enclosing ‘kettle holes’, form conspicuous objects in the centre of the valley.
1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 11 A true terminal moraine is made up of knolls and bowl-shaped depressions called kettle-holes.
1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 970 Kettle-holes are bowl-shaped depressions, usually 30 to 50 feet deep and 100 to 500 feet in larger diameter. Each depression..was the resting-place, and often the burial-place, of a huge mass of ice that became detached during the melting.
1902 G. K. Gilbert & A. P. Brigham Introd. Physical Geogr. vi. 143 Many lakes with steep rims in the midst of much glacial waste are known as Kettle-hole Lakes.
1930 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 86 112 Numerous lakes and pools lying in kettle-holes dot the surface of the moraine.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 90 The exact nature of such basins depends largely on the details of the process of deglaciation..producing an extraordinary number of kettle-hole lakes in North America.
1970 J. A. Dorr & D. F. Eschman Geol. Michigan vii. 151/2 Most of the smaller inland lakes of Michigan occupy kettle-holes.
kettle lake n. a lake in a kettle hole.
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1914 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 82. 163 Till or similar impervious material appears to be present in considerable amounts, as indicated by the numerous springs, kettle lakes, and similar features.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 587/2 The hollow is frequently water filled, so that it forms a kettle lake, kettle pond or swamp.
kettleman n. †(a) ? = kettler n.; (b) (also kettle man) one who attends to a kettle in various industries.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] > of pots, kettles, etc.
tinkler?c1214
tinker1243
prig1567
kettler1604
kettleman1629
ting-tang1633
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other specific tools or equipment
presser1545
stamper1556
blocker1609
benchman1658
engineman1777
squaremanc1790
kettleman1833
vice-man1837
poleman1859
tackle-man1859
ladler1875
sand-blaster?1881
ticket chopper1898
cager1908
gadgeteer1926
paint sprayer1928
1629 in New Romney Par. Reg. Thomas Well, Kittleman [buried].
1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 15 The manner in which the hands are distributed during the cutting season is the following..forty hands with knives..six kettle men.
1960 Classif. of Occup. (General Register Office) 51/2 Kettleman—gelatin, glue, size mfr...metal mfr...oil seed crushing.
1963 Lebende Sprachen 8 130/2 Kettleman.
kettle-maw n. the angler (fish).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler)
frogfish1598
frog1601
sea-fisher1601
sea-frog1601
friar1603
toad-fish1612
catfish1620
sea-angler1653
devil fish1666
monkfish1666
nass-fish1666
angler1776
pocket-fish1796
kettle-mawa1798
wide-gab1807
anglerfish1854
round robin1880
dragon-
a1798 T. Pennant Journey London to Isle of Wight (1801) II. 74 The common angler..from the vast width of its mouth, it is called here the Kettle-maw.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water
well bucket1477
flail?a1500
kettle-mill1570
scoop1580
water engine1611
chain-pumpa1618
cochlea1648
water-screw1648
engine1652
bucket-fountain1663
chain1682
noria1696
tub-engine1702
tub-gin1702
well-pole1727
screw engine1729
rag1747
rag pump1747
swape1773
picotah1780
water balance1800
ram1801
well sweep1818
shadoof1836
hydraulic belt1856
water carrier1875
bailer1883
trip-bucket1926
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dij The sundry wayes to force water to ascend, eyther by Tympane, Kettell mills [etc.].
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 49v Some Pompe is to be made, or Kettell, Myll, or suche like, as may serue the turne of a naturall streame.
kettle moraine n. [originally applied as a proper name to such a moraine in Wisconsin] Geomorphology moraine characterized by the presence of numerous kettle holes.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > glacial
bottom moraine1852
overwash1886
kettle moraine1889
outwash1905
1883 T. C. Chamberlin Geol. Wisconsin: Surv. of 1873–9 I. i. xv. 275 That portion of the moraine which..was formed by the joint action of the Green Bay and Lake Michigan glaciers, constitutes a succession of irregular hills and ridges, locally known as the Kettle Range, from the peculiar depressions which characterize it... As this moraine will need a specific name to distinguish it from other similar accumulations, the term Kettle Moraine may fittingly be applied to it.]
1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. vii. 120 Attention was first directed..by President T. C. Chamberlin to the character and connection of the kettle-moraine in Wisconsin.
1894 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 3) 745 The great interlobate ‘Kettle moraine’ formed by the combined action of the ice-lobes of Green Bay and Lake Michigan.
1897 W. B. Scott Introd. Geol. viii. 155 When such masses melt they form depressions in the mound and give rise to the ‘kettle moraines’.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxii. 387 Mounds and ridges of gravelly drift are referred to in British glacial literature as eskers and kames, or, generally, as kettle-drift or kettle-moraine.
1970 B. B. Luckman in C. A. Lewis Glaciations Wales viii. 176 (heading) The Kington-Orleton kettle moraine.
kettle-net n. a form of net used in fishing for mackerel.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > net for mackerel
shot-net1320
mackerel net1584
kettle-net1881
1881 L. R. Hamersly Naval Encycl. Kettle-net, a net formerly used in catching mackerel.
Derivatives
ˈkettled adj. Geology worn into kettle-shaped hollows.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [adjective] > relating to specific shapes of hollow
kettled1898
1898 Amer. Geologist Nov. 298 Crevasses and moulins would be formed..producing such a profusely kettled surface as in the Glacier Garden.
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Originally U.S. As a modifier, denoting a variety of potato chips (crisps) which have been cooked slowly in batches (in a large pot or kettle of hot oil) and are typically thicker and crunchier than other varieties. Esp. in kettle chips; cf. kettle-cooked chips at Additions.Kettle chips is a proprietary name in the United Kingdom.Quot. 1980 shows open kettle as a modifier.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > prepared potatoes > fried potatoes > crisps
Saratoga chips1869
chip1871
potato chip1893
potato straw1895
potato crisp1921
crisp1929
twiglet1932
potato stick1937
nacho1948
potato puff1972
kettle chips1980
1980 Chipper Snacker June 15/1 His idea for Lips Chips (in-store sales of open kettle chips; upscale marketing) came to him... He decided to make them himself, using the old-time kettle-cooked method.
1987 Anderson (Indiana) Herald-Bull. 16 Dec. b6/1 Kettle chips, made in small batches by relatively small producers throughout the country,..are the one bright spot in a flat potato chip market.
1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 1 d Nick Barbieri cooks a batch of kettle potato chips.
2014 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 18 Apr. Try nibbling on housemade kettle chips, served with a pan-fried onion dip.
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kettle-cooked adj. originally U.S. cooked in a kettle or large pot; (now) esp. denoting a variety of potato chips (crisps) which have been cooked slowly in batches and are typically thicker and crunchier than other varieties; esp. in kettle-cooked chips (cf. kettle chips at Additions).
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1903 J. H. Kellogg Living Temple 206 Kettle-cooked cereals of farinaceous foods..are always imperfectly cooked.
1976 Frederick (Maryland) Post 29 Mar. c6/3 Martin's Kettle Cooked Potato Chips.
1991 Good Housek. Compl. Step-by-step Guide to Entertaining 62/2 Kettle-cooked sea bass... Pour water under the rack of a fish kettle... Brush the outside of the fish lightly with oil, then place over the flavourings on the rack.
2007 J. Minter Inside Girl xvi. 116 She had a bunch of snacks—homemade cookies and kettle-cooked chips and hummus and pita bread—all laid out on the coffee table.
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