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Kettleful

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






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"Kettleful" Quotes from Famous Books



... home in Japan, where the children are merrily enjoying the game of surprises. A Japanese mother has bought a few boxes of the pith toys from Ume. They have a lacquered tub half full of warm water. Every few minutes the fat-cheeked servant-girl brings in a fresh steaming kettleful to keep it hot. They all kneel on the matting, and it being summer, they are in bare feet, which they like. The elder one of the two little girls, named O-Kin (Little Gold), has ...
— Harper's Young People, May 25, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... lazy girl was willing enough to go, and thought that now the golden rain would come. Mother Holle led her also to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. "That is the reward for your service," said Mother Holle, and ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers

... and I took a cup of her coffee. But it was poor stuff, and right then and there I made a kettleful and showed her how. But I noticed she grew ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart



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