teakettle
See also: tea-kettle and tea kettle
English
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Noun
teakettle (plural teakettles)
- (dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
- 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter V, in The House of the Seven Gables:
- Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.
- 1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter VIII, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, OCLC 632728863:
- “Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”
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a vessel for boiling water for tea
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Verb
teakettle (third-person singular simple present teakettles, present participle teakettling, simple past and past participle teakettled)
- (intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
- 2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh (page 46)
- The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.
- 2011, Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause
- They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.
- 2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh (page 46)
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