Examples from literature

• A handful of cabbage was picked up and dumped into the cauldron. 
• Now it was a great boiling cauldron whose waters rose and fell in a seething white mass. 
• Scores of large cauldrons of steaming water covered the floor. 
• The cooking apparatus of that period consisted of a whole glittering array of cauldrons, saucepans, kettles, and vessels of red and yellow copper, which hardly sufficed for all the rich soups for which France was so famous. 
• We are told in one place of a fine bronze cauldron for heating water which was worth twenty oxen, whereas a few lines lower down a good serviceable maid-of-all-work is valued at four oxen.