Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A camp-kettle used in cooking for a mess.
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Examples
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He was an ill-conditioned little mite that had probably been abandoned by a heartless mother, possibly while escaping from the prospective mess-kettle of a Confederate picket.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Stokes had managed, by hobbling about, to keep up the fire and to fill the mess-kettle with the inevitable pork and beans.
Taken Alive Edward Payson Roe 1863
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