Meaning

noun a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid

noun the quantity a kettle will hold

noun (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits

originFrom Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving…

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