fish kettle

noun

A type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish.

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Meanings

nounfish kettle (plural fish kettles)

plural fish kettles · alternative fish-kettle · alternative fishkettle

  1. cookingA type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish.

    They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.

    1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52

Translations

Italian pesciera
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