coffee-kettle

English

Noun

coffee-kettle (plural coffee-kettles)

  1. A kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
      A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.
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