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Definition of Kettleful
1. Noun. The quantity a kettle will hold.
Definition of Kettleful
1. Noun. An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kettleful
Literary usage of Kettleful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Receipts and Remedies: Useful Hints for Everyone on Health, Beauty, Clothing by Louis Andrew Flemming (1908)
"Let the articles lie in the soap over night; in the morning pour on a kettleful
of boiling water—be sure it is boiling. Cover the dish so that the steam is ..."
2. Memorial of Hon. Harry Bingham: Lawyer, Legislator, Author by Henry Harrison Metcalf, Edgar Aldrich, Albert Stillman Batchellor, John M. Mitchell (1910)
"And mother said, 'Well, while you are about it, you may as well preach for a
kettleful.' Mr. Jaquith then began, taking for his text that passage of the ..."
3. North American Indians, Volume I by George Catlin (2000)
"Whilst this first kettleful is boiling, four medicine-men, ... With this a fire
is kindled, and the kettleful of cor n again boiled for the feast, ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"Next, the head and trunk were wrapped in sheets of wet paper, the whole body
enveloped in quilts, and boiling water, kettleful after ..."
5. Modern methods in nursing by Georgiana Jane Sanders (1922)
"Boiled water, kept in the receptacle in which it has been boiled, is generally
accepted as sterile. Time must be allowed for one kettleful to be quite cold ..."
6. Further Incidents in the Life of a Mining Engineer by Edward Thomas MacCarthy (1920)
"It was afterwards doled out to each waggon, sometimes only a kettleful, ...
I remember one night, when our allowance had been a kettleful which had all been ..."
7. The Riverside Readers by James Hixon Van Sickle, Wilhelmina Seegmiller (1911)
"When that kettleful had been boiled enough, the medicine-men and the chiefs and
the warriors sat down and ate it. And, after that, the rest of the tribe ate ..."
8. North and South American Indians: Catalogue Descriptive and Instructive of by George Catlin (1871)
"The warriors dance around the first kettleful whilst it is boiling, and, when done,
... Another kettleful is then boiled, on which the dancers feast, and, ..."
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