Kettle

What do we mean by kettle?

A metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing. noun

A teakettle. noun

A kettledrum. noun

A depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice. noun

A pothole. noun

Same as kiddle noun

A vessel of iron, copper, tin, or other metal, of various shapes and dimensions, used for boiling or heating water and other liquids, or for cooking vegetables, etc., by boiling. Compare camp-kettle, tea-kettle. noun

A tin pail. Local, U. S. A kettledrum. noun

Figuratively, a cavity or depression suggesting the interior of a kettle. noun

A variant of kittle.

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

Ninepins; skittles. noun

The stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. noun

A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. noun

The quantity held by a kettle. noun

A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle. noun

A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole. noun

A collective term for a group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating. noun

A steam locomotive noun

A kettledrum. noun

A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

The quantity held by a kettle.

A vessel for boiling water for tea.

A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

(collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.

A steam locomotive

A kettledrum.

An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

To incarcerate or restrain temporarily Urban Dictionary

To be stressed out Originates from the household appliance creating steam that builds up pressure inside the kettle. Urban Dictionary

Rural drudges, no class, slovenly, aversive to hard work, dim as a used up bulb. The Kettles were originally a family portrayed in American comic films in the 1940s and '50s (the first was "The Egg And I", portraying life on a chicken / egg farm, the last "The Kettles on Old Macdonald's Farm".) In the first movie, the slow-thinking and lazy Pa and Ma Kettle, with their fifteen children, win a tobacco slogan writing contest and get a modern house with electronic gadgetry they can not fathom. Today, the term is occasionally used to describe an uncouth dufus, a rude lout, someone who completely ignores politeness and common knowledge, someone who might act like an unschooled, ignorant rural clod. Urban Dictionary

Someone that can sing un-naturally high notes. Urban Dictionary

A steam locomotive/steam train Urban Dictionary

Vagina. Urban Dictionary

Used in London, UK to refer to a wrist watch. Urban Dictionary

When one is confused or, through some other reason, cannot think clearly. Often used in conjunction with other scouse dialect to form phrases which may be confusing to outsiders Urban Dictionary

A term well known in South West England for best describing a young male and female having anal sex. Urban Dictionary

Oh for Christ Sake, does every word need to be a sexual inuendo? For that small audience even the most modest of social consciousness- Kettling is a tactic used by police to try to suppress peaceful demonstrations by corralling protesters and refusing to let them go. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to kettle:
kettle, settle, mettle, nettle, fettle, kittle, ettle, kentle, pettle, bettle, gettle, kette, ketole, kestle.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word kettle:
moraine, coulee, boil, cauldron, popcorn, boiling, cheyenne, glacial, whistle, bog, grill, chips, watershed, lid, croix, pot, creek, stony, cooked, grassland, corn, pond, holes, hole, drum, falls, fork, potato, tea, rapids, trout, scenic, ridges, drums, tributary, foods, hiking, glacier, generating, lake, steam, trail, heating, cooking, lutheran, hat, wisconsin, egg, streams, pine, reservoir, river, valley, columbia, fish, stream, dam, bull, rivers, forest, juan, copper, minnesota, roosevelt, flows, hill, bottom, mouth, boundary, guardian, southeastern, reaches, railway.

Words that rhyme with kettle:
metal, settle, mettle, nettle, petal, fettle, betel, unsettle, dead nettle, ettle, resettle, setal, metol, cetyl, gretel, ketol, tetel, horse nettle, bretful, sheet metal, babbitt metal, britannia metal, precious metal, alkali metal, noble metal, admiralty metal, gettle, yellow metal, stinging nettle, hedge nettle, type metal, ball nettle, fusible metal, hemp nettle, piper betel, roman nettle, white horse nettle, false nettle, monell metal, muntz metal, bell metal, bull nettle, devil nettle, shot metal, zettel, gilding metal, misch metal, block of metal, road metal, white metal, flame nettle, painted nettle, wood nettle, white dead nettle, spurge nettle, grid metal, australian nettle, annette hill, brett hull, debt till, et il, et ill, et til, et ul, forget till, gesamtmetall, get ill, gettel, gretal, hettel, kennametal, kettell, lafayette hill, let ill, lett till, met till, set till, sunset hill, sunset till, trettel, wet hill, yet ill, yet till, zettle.

Adjectives that are often used to describe kettle:
large, big, different, electric, old, pretty, small, black, huge, great, little, heavy, open, jacketed, fine, deep, hot, lined, porcelain, empty, covered, iron, soup, ordinary, quart, nice, battered, clean, gallon, bright, enormous, stainless, heated, closed, giant, dye, bottomed, pitch, frying, rusty, largest, cracked, tiny, round, shallow, double, ready, broken, tar, polished, immense, sized, fashioned, legged, the, mixing, magic, watched, fat, inverted, brazen, dented, stew, farina, boiling, flat, shiny, enamelled, steamjacketed, shaped, uncovered, gigantic, baking.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective kettle:
drums, drum, holes, holder, drummer, hole, method, drummers, holders, stitch, lid, hat, boiling, fish, spout, supporter, topography, singing, boil, stitches, hanger, canning, bottoms, maker, belly, hanging, gongs, stand, precedents, broth, cover, moraine, groom, cooking, cake, music, handle, debauches, mender, nets, drumming, ettle, drummings, lamp, stove, bottom, mills, spouts, boils, bubbling, skillet, tender, stands, prop, simmered, flame, steam, boiler, sugar, lifter, ring, cove, smut, terrors, rendered, pot, inquiring, tea, standing, rattle, drummes, falls, waggons, makers, lard, incident, sing, menders, drams, valleys, stick, gong, drift, lids, bow, bell, the.

Consonant match to kettle:
curtail, cattle, cattail, cuttle, cautel, kittle, cottle, curtal, catel, cattell, katal, ketol, kittul, keitel, kitul, kittel, cotyle, kite tail, cat hole, cat tail, cat hill, coat till, cotelle, cut hole, cut till, cut whole, kate hill, kettell, kit hill, kite hill, kittell.

Words that sound like kettle:
kettle, kettel, ketel, ketal, cuttle, kittle, kittel, kittul, cattle, cottle, coital, keitel, catal, katal, cattell, catel, gettle, getal, cuddle, cattail, kiddle, kotel, cautel, coddle, kettles, kirtle, caudal, cadle, curtal, caudle, keta, guttle, coat tail, cadel, caddell, kettler, caudill, codle, quetta, kadel, cat tail, kjetil, kentle, ketalar, kestel, cat hole, skittle, scuttle, kittles, kutta, crittle, caudell, kitchel, cutrell, kitchell, cutshall, kittler, codel, codell, kittrell, cuttles, kuschel, kitul, quittal, cahall, kohle, carol, coastal, carroll, castel, carole, cotta, cata, causal, costal, cota, castile, cantle, cattles, cathal, castell, caral, captal, caryl, cashel, credle, credal, cadell, cattily, cantal, cowal, crotal, crottle, chital, cottrill, cotler, cortile, coitally, crottal, cod oil.