Usually means: Pot for boiling water, cooking.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. kettle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kettle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kettle: The Word Spy
  4. kettle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kettle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. kettle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kettle, kettle: Wordnik
  8. kettle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Kettle, kettle: Wiktionary
  10. kettle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kettle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kettle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. kettle: Dictionary.com
  14. kettle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. kettle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Kettle (birds), Kettle (disambiguation), Kettle (geology), Kettle (landform), Kettle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Kettle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. kettle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. kettle: Rhymezone
  20. kettle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. kettle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. kettle: Free Dictionary
  23. kettle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. kettle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. kettle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kettle (landform), kettle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. kettle: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kettle: Easton Bible
  2. Kettle: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. kettle: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. kettle, kettle, kettle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. kettle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Kettle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  2. kettle: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See kettles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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