a covered kettle with a spout and handle, for boiling water to make tea, etc.
teakettle
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teakettle
noun
A covered kettle with a spout and handle, used for boiling water, as for tea.
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Noun
(plural teakettles)
- (US) A vessel for boiling water for tea.
- This lovely teakettle comes in three designer colors.
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Sentence Examples
- Dean pointed out the peaks that ringed them; Cirque and Teakettle Mountains, and Potosi Peak, all over 13,000 feet, and Mount Sneffles, standing tall beyond the others, stretching 14,150 feet to the sky.
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