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Meanings of teakettle in English

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A metal container used for boiling water for tea.

Usage of teakettle in English
1
Just above the small alcohol lamp the teakettle was beginning to sing.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
2
Because I really went ass over teakettle to try to accommodate him.
The Yankee Years
3
At least he'd hear Fuhr coming, hissing and spraying like a teakettle.
The hunchback assignments
4
There was a small fire in it, over which her teakettle hung.
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's
5
She soon returned with a huge brass teakettle of the Russian type.
The Blue Envelope
6
Lee heard the whistle of the teakettle and went into the kitchen.
Silent screams
7
People who have tried my boiled teakettle say it is very fine.
Remarks
8
A thin whistling sound like a teakettle's was building inside the hood.
Rain gods
9
She tumbled, ass over teakettle, right over the edge of the deck.
Changeless
10
Small wonder that I fell, tumbling down the hill, ass over teakettle.
The Name of the Wind
11
Enough pain. He got up and checked his face in the teakettle.
Frozen Heat
12
Never use water which has stood in the teakettle over night.
Things Mother Used to Make / A Collection of Old Time Recipes, S...
13
Jenny's only concern was an aluminum teakettle to which she was deeply attached.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
14
And there's the cricket on the hearth and the teakettle singing.
The Gay Cockade
15
Ingenious. He sat up straighter, and held out his hand to the teakettle.
The Golem and the Jinni
16
A good teakettle will serve the purpose for a steam generator.
Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 2
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common