Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kettle used for boiling down saccharine juice.

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Examples

  • Beneath it a sugar-kettle filled with ebullient tar was standing.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • The person thus addressed had led a young horse to water at the spring which bubbled out of a sugar-kettle hard by; and the horse, quivering, had barely touched his nostrils to the water when he reared backward, jerking the halter-rope taut.

    Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • The person thus addressed had led a young horse to water at the spring which bubbled out of a sugar-kettle hard by; and the horse, quivering, had barely touched his nostrils to the water when he reared backward, jerking the halter-rope taut.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • The person thus addressed had led a young horse to water at the spring which bubbled out of a sugar-kettle hard by; and the horse, quivering, had barely touched his nostrils to the water when he reared backward, jerking the halter-rope taut.

    Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • The boys were told off in sections, some to get dry cedar boughs from the swamp for the big fire outside, over which the iron sugar-kettle was swung to heat the scrubbing water; others off into the woods for balsam-trees for the evergreen decorations; others to draw water and wait upon the scrubbers.

    Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

  • The very first day, a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle – the borrowed sugar-kettle – and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.

    Roughing It in the Bush 1852

  • I wrote a little note to Emilia, who was still at her father's; and Mr. W —, the storekeeper, sent us a fine sugar-kettle back by Wittals, and also the other mended, in exchange for the useless piece of finery.

    Roughing It in the Bush 1852

  • We had no sugar-kettle, but a neighbour promised to lend us his, and to give us twenty-eight troughs, on condition that we gave him half the sugar we made.

    Roughing It in the Bush 1852

  • We had no sugar-kettle, but a neighbour promised to lend us his, and to give us twenty-eight troughs, on condition that we gave him half the sugar we made.

    Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844

  • The very first day, a terrible accident happened to us; a large log fell upon the sugar-kettle -- the borrowed sugar-kettle -- and cracked it, spilling all the sap, and rendering the vessel, which had cost four dollars, useless.

    Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844

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