cheese kettle

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cheese kettle (plural cheese kettles)

  1. A large metal container used to make cheese.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 265:
      The lass was busy washing the ugly old man, while the woman was lighting a fire under the big cheese-kettle on the hearth.