Cauldron
['kɔːldr(ə)n;'kɒl-] or ['kɔldrən]
Definition
n. a large kettle for boiling or heating liquids.
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Examples
- Steam admitted into the globe from the cauldron escaped through the side pipes, and its pressure on these pipes caused the globe to rotate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Before her was a small cauldron standing over a low fire and in it bubbled a thick, reddish, tarry mass. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest giant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The day wore on, and still Tarzan of the Apes crouched above the unsuspecting woman at the cauldron. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Quickly and noiselessly he dropped to the ground beside the cauldron of poison. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This toy consisted of a globe pivoted on two supports, one of which was a communicating pipe leading into a heated cauldron of water beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Scarcely had the search commenced than the overturned cauldron was discovered, and with it the theft of the poisoned arrows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There never was such an infernal cauldron as that Chancery on the face of the earth! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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