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fish kettles

fish kettles is the plural 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

Questions about fish kettles

What is fish kettles the plural of?
Fish kettles is the plural of fish kettle.

Words near fish kettles in the dictionary

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