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Kettleful

noun
1.
The quantity a kettle will hold.  Synonym: kettle.






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"Kettleful" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world her husband could be thinking of. But she lost no time in guessing. She ordered her servants to make a big fire, while she herself stirred and cooked the great kettleful of oatmeal. ...
— Bertha • Mary Hazelton Wade

... Miss Mullett, decisively. "You're going to stop as soon as we get this kettleful off. I can do the rest ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour

... and managed to light the stove and make a kettleful of tea. He drank a good deal of it, and nearly emptied the remaining small meat can, which he presently held out for the helmsman's inspection, ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... longer she allowed the kettleful to simmer on the stove, while we buttered three ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... off the covers. Now real drama seemed, at last, to be coming into her dull life. Somethink in disguise—Miss Anna's father! She hoped it was not bombs, for bombs might mean trouble for him. She resolved that should she see a bobby trying to get up into the attic she would pour a kettleful ...
— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... milk was strained into the large tub. The next morning this milk was stirred and the morning's milk strained into it. Then Mrs. Wetherell warmed a kettleful and poured into the tub, and tried it with her finger to see if it was warm enough. She said: "My rennet is rather weak, so I ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, Issue 1. - A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, - Biography, And State Progress • Various



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