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kettleful en · NOUN

Etymology

* from kettle + -ful

Meanings

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:

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Translations (4)

es caldeirada (amount) · fi kattilallinen (amount) · it calderata (amount) · ia caldierata (amount)