fish kettle

See also: fish-kettle and fishkettle

English

A fish kettle, circa 1907

Alternative forms

• fish-kettle, fishkettle

Noun

fish kettle (plural fish kettles)

1. (cooking) A type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish.
   • 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52:

     They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.

Translations

Translations

• Italian: pesciera f

Further reading

• Fish kettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia