Definitions for kettle

kettle ket·tle

Spelling: [ket-l]
IPA: /ˈkɛt l/

Kettle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in kettle (eekltt).

Definitions for kettle

noun

  1. a metal container in which to boil liquids, cook foods, etc.; pot.
  2. a teakettle.
  3. a kettledrum.
  4. Geology. kettle hole.

Origin of kettle

before 900; Middle English ketel Old Norse ketill ≪ Latin catillus, diminutive of catīnus pot; replacing Old English cetel, cietel ≪ Latin as above; compare German Kessel

Examples for kettle

There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.

Skim them well, and keep the kettle covered when you are not skimming.

Then strain the liquor through a sieve, and put it into a kettle or stew-pan.

Cover the bottom of a large boiler or kettle with saw-dust or straw.

At that point I half expected Emmanuel Radnitsky to appear with a pot and a kettle, and paint them both black.

The kettle was adamantly calling the pot black as Netanyahu accused Iran of doing all sorts of shady things with nuclear power.

If the pot wants replenishing, do it with boiling water from a kettle.

If I'd got a few handy, I should have the kettle boiling all the sooner.'

Cover the jar, and set it up to the neck in a kettle of boiling water.

The Nazi-hunting era that began with the thunder of a kettle drum at the Nuremberg trials in 1945 ended with a whimper in 2011.

Word Value for kettle
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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