kettle hole


nounGeology.
  1. a deep, kettle-shaped depression in glacial drift.

Origin of kettle hole

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby kettle hole

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How to use kettle hole in a sentence

  • The kettle hole Ranch house faces a wide, treeless valley and is backed by an equally bare hill.

    They of the High Trails | Hamlin Garland
  • For this he had a piece of sheet-iron cut out two feet long and fourteen inches wide, with a round kettle-hole near one end.

    The Hoosier School-boy | Edward Eggleston

British Dictionary definitions for kettle hole

kettle hole

noun
  1. a round hollow formed by the melting of a mass of buried ice: Often shortened to: kettle

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