Caldron
['kɔːldrən] or ['kɔldrən]
Definition
(n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]
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Definition
Same as Cauldron.
Checker: Tom
Examples
- She set on every dish; and I always saw in her face, a face rising out of the caldron. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We are all in the same caldron. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They will see I love thee so that they will know it would be as unsafe as putting their hands into a caldron of melted lead to touch me. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When a farmer had killed a hog, he would render out certain of the fats in an iron caldron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There are great open caldrons, steam jacketed, where an even and uniform temperature is maintained. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was poured from caldrons and ladles, vomited through long copper tubes, or flung in pots, phials and barrels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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