giant's kettles

A form of giant's kettle — A typically large and cylindrical pothole drilled in solid rock underlying a glacier either by water descending down a deep moulin or by gravel rotating in the bed of subglacial stream.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of giant's kettle
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