Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A covered kettle with a spout and handle, used for boiling water, as for tea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A portable kettle with spout and handle, in which to boil water for making tea and for other uses.
Wiktionary
- n. US A vessel for boiling water for tea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. kettle for boiling water to make tea
Examples
“Tish leaned over and, taking the teakettle from the fire, poured more water into the foot-tub.”
“The general response to the lawsuits was that it was the pot calling the teakettle black," said Billy Pidgeon, a game analyst with M2Research.”
“A large, heavy-paper funnel is put in the nose of the teakettle which is boiling on the gas range.”
“Then, whoever is 'it,' begins to ask questions, and we answer, only we put the word 'teakettle' in place of the real word.”
“Breaking Bad has a way of investing everyday objects — a teakettle, a box cutter, a local car wash — with ominous significance, reminders in a bleak sun-blasted Albuquerque landscape that the wages of sin are messy and a corrupted soul can't be easily cleansed.”
“I swerved at the last nanosecond and almost pitched myself ass over teakettle.”
“Galina speaking in English was kind of like a teakettle about to explode with steam.”
“I tried to keep my eyes on the road, and not think about my mother, and the day Aunt Caro called me from the carriage house to tell me someone had left the teakettle on all day, ruining the kettle and the stove, nearly setting fire to the whole kitchen.”
“When you fall down a flight of stairs, it's core that keeps you upright rather than ass over teakettle.”
“The murdered woman's scream sounds like a teakettle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teakettle’.
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tea phrases /words
everything tea
Abyssinian tea, afternoon t, Algerian tea, Appalachian tea, Arabian tea, Australian tea, Barbary tea, Bencoolen tea, Blue Mountain tea, Botany Bay tea, Bourbon tea, Brazil tea and 294 more...
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The Way of Tea
All things tea (lingo, paraphernalia, types).
high tea, meat tea, four o'clock tea, five o'clock tea, tea party, teapoy, tea service, tea set, tea tray, teapot, teakettle, tea urn and 150 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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knitandpurl's words
kerfuffle, perspicacious, quiescent, sestina, xaipe, palimpsest, plangently, coriander, cartwheel, cardamom, bergamot, persnickety and 44 more...
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