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coffee-kettle

coffee-kettle noun: a kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.

Noun

coffee-kettle (plural coffee-kettles)

  1. A kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.
    • A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296

Forms of coffee-kettle

pluralcoffee-kettles

Questions about coffee-kettle

What does coffee-kettle mean?
Coffee-kettle means a kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.
What part of speech is coffee-kettle?
Coffee-kettle is a noun.
What is the plural of coffee-kettle?
The plural of coffee-kettle is coffee-kettles.

Words near coffee-kettle in the dictionary

  1. coffee-glass
  2. coffee-glasses
  3. coffee-house
  4. coffee-houses
  5. coffee-ing
  6. coffee-kettle
  7. coffee-kettles
  8. coffee-klatch
  9. coffee-klatched
  10. coffee-klatches
  11. coffee-klatching

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