pitch-kettle

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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

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Kettle

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

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Pitch

  ·noun Height; stature. II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch. III. Pitch ·noun A desce...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pitch

  (Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• pitch

  Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence. It is used in a hot state with o...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Pitch

  The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• kettle-bottom

  A name applied to a ship with a flat floor. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• kettle-net

  A net used in taking mackerel. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Auction pitch

  ·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pitch-black

  ·adj Black as pitch or tar. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pitch-dark

  ·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pitch-faced

  ·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pitch-ore

  ·noun <<Pitchblende>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Tough-pitch

  ·noun Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake. II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• pitch-kettled

  Stuck fast, confounded. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bastard-pitch

  A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pitch-boat

  A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pitch-house

  A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pitch-ladle

  Is used for paying decks and horizontal work. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pitch-mop

  The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pitch-pine

  ♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.) ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• chewing of pitch

  See chewing of oakum ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pitch in, to

  To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.) ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• devil to pay and no pitch hot

  The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

  The Sailor's Word-Book