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Fob (Watch)
Kiddle is Dorset slang for a kettle.
a large tin tea-kettle
a large tub used to make a tanning liquid for sails
Phrs. Fall over. Also arse over tea kettle.
Kettle and hob is London Cockney rhyming slang for Bob. Kettle and hob is London Cockney rhyming slang for fob.
Stinging nettle is British rhyming slang for a kettle.
Also known as strength training, weight training, resistance training, and of course, pumping iron, lifting is the go-to method for increasing muscular strength, size, tone, and endurance. Workouts can utilize dumbbells, weight machines, kettlebells, resistance tubing, body weight, or a combination of them all.
Captain Kettle is London Cockney rhyming slang for to settle, to end an argument.
Any small locomotive, especially an old, leaky one. Also called teakettle and coffeepot
Tripping going head over heels, falling downhill.
Watch (fob watch). That's a lovely kettle. I got the following from Dudley who wondered about the connection between a kettle and a watch - he passed on the following story:
Noun. A watch or wrist watch. Possibly from rhyming slang kettle and hob, meaning fob. [Mainly London use]
Kettle is British slang for a watch.
  a horse bucking; also kettled.
A kettle for carrying coals to the fire. Also called a coal scuttle.
Scrap metal is London Cockney rhyming slang for kettle.
Put the kettle on, usually in reference to making a cup of tea
(Commonly pronounced shevaree.) - A custom of serenading the newly married with noise, including tin horns, bells, pans, kettles, etc. This "serenade" is continued night after night until the party is invited in and handsomely entertained.
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A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.
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A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.
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A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.
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An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.
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A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.
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A kind of kettledrum.
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A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.
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The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
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To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.
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To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
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A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.
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An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
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A kettledrum. See Tymbal.
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A caldron; a copper kettle.
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To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.
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That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
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An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
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A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
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A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
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One who plays on a kettledrum.
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