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a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids. Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.

A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

One who plays on a kettledrum.

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors. Croly.

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. Forby.

To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

A kettle or pan for braising.

A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] "Caldrons of boiling oil." Prescott.

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

ireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. -…

To make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.

A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

n arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

usical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

etched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.…

r baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. -- Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. -- Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. h…

which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. -- Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. -- Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of…