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A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

Example: There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.

The quantity held by a kettle.

A vessel for boiling water for tea.

Example: Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.

A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

(of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.