(Britain, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area. / (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. / The quantity held by a kettle.

Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”)

simple past tense and past participle of kettle

An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.

plural of kettleful

plural of kettle

A surname.

plural of Kettle

A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.