kettles

Meaning of kettles

plural noun
  1. a container or device in which water is boiled, having a lid, spout, and handle.
  2. a depression in the ground thought to have been formed by the melting of an ice block trapped in glacial deposits, especially one that is circular and deep.
    our lake is probably a kettle
    a kettle pond
  3. a small area in which demonstrators or protesters are confined by police seeking to maintain order during a demonstration.
    activists in the kettle were protesting at being held and resisting arrest
verb, 3rd person present
  1. (of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators or protesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration.
    the plan was to get as close to the protest as possible without getting kettled

Old English cetel, cietel, of Germanic origin, based on Latin catillus, diminutive of catinus ‘deep container for cooking or serving food’. In Middle English the word's form was influenced by Old Norse ketill .

Information about kettles

  • The singular form of kettles is: kettle.
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Hyphenation of kettles

ket-tles

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • kettles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with kettles

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