kettle hole
Origin of kettle hole
1First recorded in 1880–85
- Also called kettle.
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 GarlandFor 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 ice: Often shortened to: kettle
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