kettle
nounA metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing.
nounA teakettle.
nounA kettledrum.
nounA depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice.
nounA pothole.
nounSame as
A variant of
A vessel of iron, copper, tin, or other metal, of various shapes and dimensions, used for boiling or heating water and other liquids, or for cooking vegetables, etc., by boiling. Compare camp-kettle, tea-kettle.
nounA tin pail. [Local, U. S.] A kettledrum.
nounfiguratively, a cavity or depression suggesting the interior of a kettle.