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noun
- A vessel for boiling water.
- To cook pasta, you first need to put the on.
- The use of such a vessel for boiling tea.
- Stick the on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
- A vessel for boiling any liquid
- There's a hot of soup on the stove.
- A cooking pot used to steam fish.
- The collective noun for a group of airborne hawks.
- (context, rail transport, slang) a steam locomotive
Etymology: (Northumbrian) cetel, from w:West Germanic language, West Germanic - katil, probably from catillus, diminutive of cantinus, cantÄnus "food-vessel". Cognate with Dutch ketel, German Keíel, Frisian tsjettel (English did not follow the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law in this occasion)
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