kettle

A metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing.

A teakettle.

A kettledrum.

A depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice.

A pothole.

Same as kiddle

A variant of kittle.

A vessel of iron, copper, tin, or other metal, of various shapes and dimensions, used for boiling or heating water and other liquids, or for cooking vegetables, etc., by boiling. Compare camp-kettle, tea-kettle.

A tin pail. [Local, U. S.] A kettledrum.

figuratively, a cavity or depression suggesting the interior of a kettle.