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cheese kettle

cheese kettle noun: a large metal container used to make cheese.

Noun

cheese kettle (plural cheese kettles)

  1. A large metal container used to make cheese.
    • The lass was busy washing the ugly old man, while the woman was lighting a fire under the big cheese-kettle on the hearth.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 265

Forms of cheese kettle

pluralcheese kettles

Questions about cheese kettle

What does cheese kettle mean?
Cheese kettle means a large metal container used to make cheese.
What part of speech is cheese kettle?
Cheese kettle is a noun.
What is the plural of cheese kettle?
The plural of cheese kettle is cheese kettles.

Words near cheese kettle in the dictionary

  1. cheese grader
  2. cheese grater
  3. cheese graters
  4. cheese in a can
  5. cheese it
  6. cheese kettle
  7. cheese kettles
  8. cheese knife
  9. cheese knives
  10. cheese mite
  11. cheese mites

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