cauldron Definition
caul·dron (kôl′drən)
noun
cauldron Usage Examples
Converse of object
- stir: He was stirring the caldron, not the melting pot, said some.
- boil: Blue; Medea's boiling caldron embossed with a ram's head gold upon an open fire of logs inflamed proper.
- bubble: A bubbling caldron which, in theory, should have produced the finest Paradise Lost album to date.
- include: From this time archeologists have found new types of objects including large bronze cauldrons which would have been hung on chains above the fire.
- have: The three sisters, like the three witches of Macbeth, have an exotic caldron on the bubble.
- use: The huge caldron used to make pilaf had a special symbolic significance for the Janissaries, and was the focal point of each division.
Adjective modifier
- seething: The world, like our brain, is a seething caldron of language.
- magical: Beside, the Bannus - like the magical caldron of Celtic myth - provides whatever is asked of it.
- magic: Her heart a magic caldron where we were all special.
- huge: She could remember the men preparing a daily broth in a huge caldron over a fire in the fields.
- large: The large copper caldron in which the objects were ultimately stored was undoubtedly used in the kitchen.
Modifies a noun
bubble: As they move " Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Noun used with modifier
- bronze: A bronze caldron might be suspended from a tripod, by a chain, over the fire.
- copper: The large copper caldron in which the objects were ultimately stored was undoubtedly used in the kitchen.
- iron: Above the hearth hangs an iron caldron on a long chain, suspended from beams near the apex of the roof.
- metal: Meat could be cooked in metal caldron, baked in the hot ashes or roasted on iron spits over the fire.
Possessives
witch: Listen to spooky stories, have your face painted, reach into the witch's caldron, get made up with disgusting wounds!
Preposition: of
- inspiration: Its wonder-working vessel may have been the same as a caldron of inspiration that belonged to the goddess Ceridwen.
- noise: The second half was a caldron of noise from the City end, all backing the team.
- plenty: The story tells of how he thrust his hands into the ' caldron of plenty ' , to receive a gift for the earth.
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