Kettle
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
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a metal pot for stewing or boiling
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(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
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the quantity a kettle will hold
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- boilerkettle holekettledrumkettlefultimpanitympanitympanum
- plural
- Kettles
- possessive
- Kettle's
- pluralpossessive
- Kettles'