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fishkettle

fishkettle 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 fishkettle

pluralfishkettles

Questions about fishkettle

What is fishkettle the alternative form of?
Fishkettle is the alternative form of fish kettle.

Words near fishkettle in the dictionary

  1. fishjoint
  2. fishjoints
  3. fishkeeper
  4. fishkeepers
  5. fishkeeping
  6. fishkettle
  7. fishkettles
  8. fishkill
  9. fishkills
  10. Fishkin
  11. fishkind

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