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KETTLEFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kettleful mean?
• KETTLEFUL (noun)
The noun KETTLEFUL has 1 sense:
1. the quantity a kettle will hold
Familiarity information: KETTLEFUL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quantity a kettle will hold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
kettle; kettleful
Hypernyms ("kettleful" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
Context examples
Having done the honours of his house in this hospitable manner, Mr. Peggotty went out to wash himself in a kettleful of hot water, remarking that “cold would never get his muck off”.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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