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Kettle
·noun A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling wate...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Kettle
A large pot for cooking. The same Hebrew word (dud, "boiling") is rendered also "pot" (Ps. 81:6), "c...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Kettle
a vessel for culinary or sacrificial purposes. (1 Samuel 2:14) The Hebrew word is also rendered "bas...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
kettle-bottom
A name applied to a ship with a flat floor. ...

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kettle-net
A net used in taking mackerel. ...

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pitch-kettle
That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot. ...

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kettle of fish
When a person has perplexed his affairs in general, or any particular business, he is said to have m...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
kettle of fish
When a person has been perplexed in his affairs in general, or in any particular business, he is sai...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
kettle of fish
To have made a pretty kettle of fish of it, implies a perplexity in judgment. ...

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