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

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Kettle
A large pot for cooking. The same Hebrew word (dud, "boiling") is rendered also "pot" (Ps. 81:6), "c...

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kettle
The brass or metal box of a compass. ...

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

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Net
·adj Without spot; pure; shining. II. Net ·vt To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree. I...

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Net
In use among the Hebrews for fishing, hunting, and fowling. The fishing-net was probably constructed...

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net
In commerce, is the weight of a commodity alone, without the package. ...

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Net
[See FISHING] ...

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kettle-bottom
A name applied to a ship with a flat floor. ...

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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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Bag net
·- A bag-shaped net for catching fish. ...

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Bow net
·- A net for catching birds. II. Bow net ·- A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a...

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Bramble net
·- A net to catch birds. ...

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Day-net
·noun A net for catching small birds. ...

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Net-veined
·adj Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf. ...

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Tuck-net
·noun ·see <<Tuck>>, ·noun, 2. ...

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kangaroo-net
n. net made by the natives tocatch the kangaroo. 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 45...

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mosquito net
A net or curtain, which, in the Southern States and in the West Indies, is placed over the bed to pr...

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cleaching net
A hand-net with a hoop and bar, used by fishermen on the banks of the Severn. ...

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dipping-net
A small net used for taking shad and other fish out of the water. ...

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drag-net
A trawl or net to draw on the bottom for flat-fish. ...

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draw-net
Erroneously used for drag-net. ...

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drift-net
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...

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gaff-net
A peculiar net for fishing. ...

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halve-net
A standing net used in the north to prevent fishes from returning with the falling tide. ...

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harry-net
A net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even the young and small fish. ...

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mosquito net
A light curtain spread over a cot or bed in warm climates, to protect the sleeper from mosquitoes. ...

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purse-net
A peculiar landing-net in fishing. It is used in the seine and trawl to bewilder the fish, and preve...

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raise-net
A kind of staked net on our northern shores, so called from rising and falling with the tide. ...

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shackle-net
The northern term for flue-net. ...

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sheen-net
A large drag-net. ...

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shot-net
A mackerel-net. ...

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spake-net
A peculiar net for catching crabs. ...

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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...

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kettle of fish
When a person has been perplexed in his affairs in general, or in any particular business, he is sai...

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kettle of fish
To have made a pretty kettle of fish of it, implies a perplexity in judgment. ...

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Knight baro-net
·- ·see <<Baronet>>. ...

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ban-net tree
a walnut-tree. Glo. ...

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net and coble
The means by which sasses or flood-gates are allowed in fishings on navigable rivers. ...

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