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tea kettle

tea kettle is the alternative form of teakettle.

Meaning of teakettle

Noun

teakettle (plural teakettles)

  1. (dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
    • Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

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Forms of tea kettle

pluraltea kettles

Questions about tea kettle

What is tea kettle the alternative form of?
Tea kettle is the alternative form of teakettle.

Words near tea kettle in the dictionary

  1. Tea Green
  2. tea house
  3. tea houses
  4. tea jennies
  5. tea jenny
  6. tea kettle
  7. tea kettles
  8. tea kitchen
  9. tea kitchens
  10. tea ladies
  11. tea lady

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