Usually means: Containers for boiling water, typically.
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  1. kettles: Merriam-Webster
  2. kettles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. kettles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Kettle's, Kettles, Kettles, kettle's, kettles: Wordnik
  5. kettles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Kettles, kettles: Wiktionary
  7. kettles: Dictionary.com
  8. kettles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Kettles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. kettles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. kettles: Encyclopedia

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  1. kettles: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kettle)

noun:  (cooking) 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 or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
noun:  (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
noun:  (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
noun:  (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
noun:  (music) A kettledrum.
noun:  An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
noun:  (slang) A watch (timepiece).
noun:  A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
verb:  (originally British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village in Fife council area, near Cupar in Scotland.
noun:  Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”) [A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.]
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