kettle : Idioms & Phrases

Index

Fish kettle

  • a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
Webster 1913

Giant kettle

  • a pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole.
Webster 1913

kettle hole

  • noun (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
    kettle.
WordNet

kettle of fish

  • noun informal terms for a difficult situation
    mess; fix; muddle; jam; hole; pickle.
    • he got into a terrible fix
    • he made a muddle of his marriage
WordNet

Kettle pins

  • ninepins; skittles. Obs. Shelton.
Webster 1913

Kettle stitch

  • (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.
Webster 1913

two kettle

  • noun a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux
WordNet