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fish-kettle

fish-kettle is the alternative form of fish kettle.

Meaning of fish kettle

Noun

fish kettle (plural fish kettles)

  1. A type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish.
    • They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52

Forms of fish-kettle

pluralfish-kettles

Questions about fish-kettle

What is fish-kettle the alternative form of?
Fish-kettle is the alternative form of fish kettle.

Words near fish-kettle in the dictionary

  1. fish-hook theory
  2. fish-horn
  3. fish-horns
  4. fish-house
  5. fish-houses
  6. fish-kettle
  7. fish-kettles
  8. fish-knife
  9. fish-knives
  10. fish-mongress
  11. fish-mongresses

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