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kettle
noun- a fob watch; a wristwatch UK, 1889
Possibly rhyming slang, “kettle on the hob” for “fob”; a red kettle is a gold watch, a white or tin kettle is silver. - [M]orries never hock their gold kettles and never walk or but it[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 21, 1962
- Arthur glanced at the Inspector’s watch. "What a lovely kettle[.]" — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 123, 1984
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 68, 1996
- a steam locomotive US, 1934
From the image of steam rising. - [E]very historic steam excursion is openly cursed by diesel enthusiasts who pray that the "kettle" will break down[.] — Iain Aitch, A Fête Worse Than Death, p. 91, 2003
- a boiler of a steam engine US, 1828
- I went on the footplate to help keep the old kettle boiling on the climb out of Campbelltown. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 187, 1969
- in electric line work, an overhead transformer US
- — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 11, 1980
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