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noun Geology.
a deep, kettle-shaped depression in glacial drift.
pothole (def. 3).
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Also called kettle.

Origin of kettle hole

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby kettle hole

kettle base, kettlebell, kettle-bottom, kettledrum, kettle hat, kettle hole, kettle of fish, kettle stitch, kettling, ketubah, Keturah
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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
a round hollow formed by the melting of a mass of buried iceOften shortened to: kettle
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