cauldron

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Beside the cauldron was a great stump of wood, with a chopper and a knife lying upon it.... He drew one long steady breath, expelled it again, and turned back to my lord Shrewsbury.

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  1. noun A large vessel, such as a kettle or vat, used for boiling.
  2. noun A state or situation of great distress or unrest felt to resemble a boiling kettle or vat: a cauldron of conflicting corporate politics.

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  • I soon hurried away from this salubrious cauldron, and stepping into a little chapel hard by, where they were singing vespers, prayed heartily to the Virgin, that I might never need the assistance of those wonder-working waters over which she presides. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
  • It will be much quicker and since, as I imagine, the cauldron is all set about with your myrmidons, neither of us will have an opportunity to add articles of evening dress to the seething mud. —  Color Scheme - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 12: 1943
  • This was also the root of the English word "cauldron" and the French word chaudiere - and it is obviously a short hop from there to chowder. —  Cook sister!
  • The circle of glowing mushrooms by a 2-story witch's cauldron is a player-favorite meeting place / dance zone. —  Kill Ten Rats
  • They accordingly cooked his body in a cauldron, and were about to eat it when Takshaka appeared to them in the form of a Brahman and warned them against this act of cannibalism. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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  1. Middle English, alteration of cauderon, from Norman French, diminutive of caudiere, cooking pot, from Late Latin caldāria, from feminine of Latin caldārius, suitable for warming, from calidus, warm; see kelə-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

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