fishkettle

fishkettle (plural fishkettles)

1. Alternative form of fish kettle.
   • 1984, Josephine Boyle, chapter 3, in A Spectre in the Hall, London: Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Limited, →ISBN, page 57:

     “[…] There’s some copper.” / “Not galleons and men-in-armour fire-irons?” / “No, real old stuff. Fishkettles and things. And a gorgeous slop pail covered in the proverbial violets, would you believe?”

   • 1987, Lucilla Andrews, chapter 3, in The Phoenix Syndrome, Bath: Lythway, Chivers Press, →ISBN, pages 72 and 78:

     I’ve written out a chit for two of those old fishkettles Surgical Stores got on their back shelves. […] The whole of Florence was now closed; isolation notices were going up like bunting; and Dodds had lit the anthracite stove, put up the old ping-pong table and installed fishkettles and his primus in the Lecture Room renamed by the entire staff, the Leper Colony.

   • 1989, Elizabeth Walker [pseudonym; Elizabeth Rotter], chapter 29, in The Court, London: Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd, →ISBN, page 271:

     After a while she got up to go downstairs and check with the cook about dinner. There was to be salmon, an enormous beast poached in one of The Court’s giant fishkettles.

   • 2010, Kathryn Ferry, “Below Stairs”, in The Victorian Home, Botley, Oxon: Shire Publications Ltd, →ISBN, part one (Living in the Victorian Home), pages 50–51:

     Mrs Panton advised that a thrifty middle-class kitchen could survive with only six saucepans of ‘medium quality’ though achieving a sophisticated range of dishes required an array of stewpans, fishkettles, sauté pans, steamers, boilers, sieves, colanders, moulds, funnels, dredgers and so on.