coffee-kettle

noun

A kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.

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Meanings

nouncoffee-kettle (plural coffee-kettles)

plural coffee-kettles

  1. A kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.

    A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296
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