fish-kettle

See also: fish kettle and fishkettle

English

Noun

fish-kettle (plural fish-kettles)

  1. Alternative form of fish kettle.
    • 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52:
      They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.
    • 1975, Philip Glazebrook, The Eye of the Beholder, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, published 1976, →ISBN, page 39:
      On the long dim landing a wink of light gleamed like an eye in a copper fish-kettle.
    • 1989, Claire Joyes, translated by Josephine Bacon, “[Life with Monet and Alice] Picnics and Celebration Lunches”, in Monet’s Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 74, column 1:
      She was surrounded by all her pans, pots, casseroles, and copper fish-kettles, her baking trays for meringues, her strings of molds, and the country stove for baking her apple tarts.
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