caldron
Britishnoun
Explanation
A caldron is a large cooking pot, often with handles. If you're planning to cook chili for an entire Super Bowl crowd, it is recommended you use the caldron and not the saucepan. A famous scene from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth shows the three witches casting a spell as they add ingredients into a caldron. Each time they add something to the big pot, like eye of newt or lizard's leg, they repeat the chorus of their spell in unison: "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."
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Chocolate Pudding Cake is a one-pot cake, extremely easy to make and a perfect use for your caldron.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
Care: We weren't prepared for what was to hit us in that caldron, that atmosphere we met.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2022
It starts with just a pot of water, and it ends with a flavorful, mighty caldron of soup.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
The Japanese superstar who lit the Olympic caldron defeated 52nd-ranked Zheng Saisai of China 6-1, 6-4 in her opening match.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2021
She made that outdoors over an open fire, and she’d put pennies in the caldron to keep it from sticking.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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