(thing) by Sylvar Sat Jul 01 2000 at 17:36:52
A teakettle is the piece of cookware which you fill with water and put on the stove, and which whistles when the water begins to boil. A teakettle should never actually contain tea; its function is to heat water.

Compare teapot, which does not go on the stove. You pour hot water from a teakettle into a teapot.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:42:24

Tea"ket`tle (?), n.

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

 

© Webster 1913.

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