teakettle

• tea kettle
• tea-kettle

From tea +‎ kettle.

teakettle (plural teakettles)

1. (dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:

     Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.

   • 1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter VIII, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:

     “Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”

• ass over teakettle
• teakettle groom
• teakettler

• tea
• teapot

• → Jersey Norman: ticl'ye
• → Welsh: tegell

teakettle (third-person singular simple present teakettles, present participle teakettling, simple past and past participle teakettled)

1. (intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
   • 2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, page 46:

     The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.

   • 2011, Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause:

     They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.