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tea·ket·tle

(tē′kĕt′l)

A covered kettle with a spout and handle, used for boiling water, as for tea.

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teakettle

(ˈtiːˌkɛtəl)

(Cookery) a kettle for boiling water to make tea

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tea•ket•tle

(ˈtiˌkɛt l)

n.

a portable kettle with a cover, spout, and handle, used for boiling water.

[1695–1705]

Teakettle

A covered metal pot with a bail and a spout. Before hot water heaters were available, teakettles were kept on the kitchen stove to supply hot water for such things as shaving and hand washing. A teakettle full of boiling water was also a convenient place to cook hard-boiled eggs. (When kitchen stoves burned either coal or wood, they usually had a fire in them all day, so a teakettle on the stove provided a daylong source of hot water.)

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teakettle - kettle for boiling water to make tea

kettle, boiler - a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid

Translations

غَلَّايَةُ

konvice

kedel

vedenkeitin

kotlić

ケトル

주전자

tekokare

กาต้มน้ำ

çaydanlık

ấm đun nước

壶

teakettle

[ˈtiːketl] N (US) → tetera f

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teakettle

n → Wasserkessel m

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Teakettle

→ غَلَّايَةُ konvice kedel Kessel κατσαρόλα hervidor de agua vedenkeitin bouilloire kotlić bollitore ケトル 주전자 ketel kjele czajnik chaleira чайник tekokare กาต้มน้ำ çaydanlık ấm đun nước 壶

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Peter shuffled to his feet, caught up the teakettle and mixed him some hot water and whiskey.

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The shades were up, and there was a roaring fire in the stove; the teakettle was singing and bubbling as it sent out a cloud of steam, and pushed over its capacious nose was a half sheet of note paper with "Compliments of Rebecca" scrawled on it.

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"Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a t^te-.-t^te set, and lots of good things to eat.

"I do wish I could have a nice room like this, and a cat and a bird that would n't eat each other up, and a dear little teakettle, and make just as much toast as I like."

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Phoebe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.

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"Have you torn the house down enough to heat the teakettle?"

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and laughing and I was laughing like the blue teakettle

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Not the mantle clock, still ticking, striking the hours as we worked, not the state spoons she loved, the fashion magazines, the teakettle. Nothing was enough, you said, until-- until, sorting the hall closet, I uncovered the nativity set you remembered, hand-carved and painted, though chipped in spots: an ear here, a finger there, a cow's horn gone.