cheese kettle

noun

A large metal container used to make cheese.

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Meanings

nouncheese kettle (plural cheese kettles)

plural cheese kettles

  1. A large metal container used to make cheese.

    The lass was busy washing the ugly old man, while the woman was lighting a fire under the big cheese-kettle on the hearth.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 265
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