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kettle holes

kettle holes is the plural of kettle hole.

Meaning of kettle hole

Noun

kettle hole (plural kettle holes)

  1. A depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it.
    • An adult male mammoth and four juveniles, trapped about 14,500 years ago in a boggy ʽkettle holeʼ left by a retreating glacier in Shropshire, are the most recent record in the UK.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 207
    Synonyms:
    kettle

Questions about kettle holes

What is kettle holes the plural of?
Kettle holes is the plural of kettle hole.

Words near kettle holes in the dictionary

  1. kettle hat
  2. kettle hats
  3. kettle helmet
  4. kettle helmets
  5. kettle hole
  6. kettle holes
  7. kettle lake
  8. kettle lakes
  9. kettle lead
  10. kettle leads
  11. kettle logic

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