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kettle (iou) and Sunday, Billy (sh)


kettle (iou)



kettle noun.

I.
A vessel, usu. of metal, for boiling water or Other liquids; spec. (a) a covered vessel with a spout and handle, used to boil water for domestic purposes (also tea-kettle); (b) (in full fish-kettle) a long usu. oval pan for Cooking fish in liquid. Also, a kettle and its contents; the contents of a kettle; as much as a kettle will hold, a kettleful. OE.
electric kettle, jug kettle, maslin kettle, whistling kettle, etc. kettle of fish (a) Scot. dial. = sense 2 above; (b) a state of affairs: in a pretty kettle of fish, a fine kettle of fish, a nice kettle of fish, etc., a mess, an awkward state of affairs; a different kettle of fish, another kettle of fish, a different state of affairs or matter altogether.
L. Cody She put the kettle on for tea.
A picnic or excursion at which fish is cooked out of doors. Scot. dial. L17.
A bowl- or saucer-shaped vessel in which operations are carried out on low-melting metals, glass, plastics, etc., in the liquid state. E19.
A deep circular hollow scoured out in a rocky river-bed, under a glacier, etc.; a pothole. Also (Physical Geography) = kettle hole below. M19.
A watch. slang (chiefly Criminals'). M19.
II.
= KETTLEDRUM. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
Comb.: kettle-bottom (a) a hill with broad flat top and sloping sides; (b) Nautical a ship with a flat floor; kettle-holder a piece of cloth etc. used to protect the hand from the heat of a kettle-handle; kettle hole Physical Geography a deep, often circular depression in the ground formed by the melting of an ice block trapped in glacial deposits; kettle lake Physical Geography a lake in a kettle hole; kettle moraine Physical Geography a moraine in which there are numerous kettle holes.
kettleful noun as much as a kettle will hold M19.
kettler noun (a) a person who mends kettles; (b) a colour-mixer's assistant who boils dyestuffs: E17.

Sunday, Billy (sh)




orig. William Ashley Sunday

born Nov. 19, 1862/63, Ames, Iowa, U.S.
died Nov. 6, 1935, Chicago, Ill.

U.S. religious revivalist.

He became a professional Baseball player with the Chicago White Sox in 1883 and later played in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Philadelphia. In 1887 he underwent a conversion experience; he began preaching in 1897 and was ordained in the Presbyterian church in 1903. A flamboyant preacher of fundamentalist theology whose sermons reflected the social upheaval caused by the transition from a rural to an urban society, he advocated a strict morality and campaigned effectively for Prohibition. He conducted hundreds of revival meetings and reached an estimated 100 million people. His popularity faded in the 1920s, but he continued preaching until his death.