A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
The quantity held by a kettle.
A vessel for boiling water for tea.
Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
(collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
a kettle of hawks
A steam locomotive
A kettledrum.
An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
(of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.