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teakettle

[ tee-ket-l ]

noun

  1. a portable kettle with a cover, spout, and handle, used for boiling water.


teakettle

/ ˈtiːˌkɛtəl /

noun

  1. a kettle for boiling water to make tea


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Word History and Origins

Origin of teakettle1

First recorded in 1695–1705; tea + kettle

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Example Sentences

It’s possible—not certain—that such an imperfection will catch your tip and send you ass over teakettle.

Pour a teakettle of boiling water on the horns, holding so as to prevent injury to the other parts.

A large, heavy-paper funnel is put in the nose of the teakettle which is boiling on the gas range.

When a teakettle boils the water turns to bubbles of vapor and goes up in the air to turn to water again when it gets cold.

The water was cold, and the teakettle almost empty, and mutton-chops did make such greasy plates.

When Watt sat by the fire watching the steam from the teakettle lift the lid, he was not precisely idle.

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