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KETTLE HOLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kettle hole mean?
• KETTLE HOLE (noun)
The noun KETTLE HOLE has 1 sense:
1. (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
Familiarity information: KETTLE HOLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
kettle; kettle hole
Hypernyms ("kettle hole" is a kind of...):
hole; hollow (a depression hollowed out of solid matter)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
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