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noun 
  1. A vessel for boiling water.
To cook pasta, you first need to put the on.
  1. The use of such a vessel for boiling tea.
Stick the on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
  1. A vessel for boiling any liquid
There's a hot of soup on the stove.
  1. A cooking pot used to steam fish.
  2. The collective noun for a group of airborne hawks.
  3. (context, rail transport, slang) a steam locomotive
Translations: 
  • Spanish: caldera
  • German: Kessel
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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