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kettlefuls

kettlefuls is the plural of kettleful.

Meaning of kettleful

Noun

kettleful (plural kettlefuls or kettlesful)

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
    • Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her.1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories

Questions about kettlefuls

What is kettlefuls the plural of?
Kettlefuls is the plural of kettleful.

Words near kettlefuls in the dictionary

  1. kettledrummer
  2. kettledrummers
  3. kettledrumming
  4. kettledrums
  5. kettleful
  6. kettlefuls
  7. kettlelike
  8. kettleman
  9. Kettleman City
  10. kettlemen
  11. Kettleness

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