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What does kettle mean?

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Noun
  1. A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
  2. The quantity held by a kettle.
  3. (Britain) A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle.
  4. (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
  5. (ornithology, collective) A collective term for a group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
  6. (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
  7. (music) A kettledrum.
  8. An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
Verb
  1. (Britain, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
Noun
  1. Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”)
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