Definition of "kettle"

A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.  examples

The quantity held by a kettle.  examples

A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.  examples

(geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

(ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.  quotations

(rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive

(music) A kettledrum.  examples

An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.  examples

(slang) A watch. Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch)

(originally Britain, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.  quotations  examples

(intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.  examples

Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”)  examples