What does fish-kettle mean?

fish-kettle

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

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"They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle."
"On the long dim landing a wink of light gleamed like an eye in a copper fish-kettle."
"She was surrounded by all her pans, pots, casseroles, and copper fish-kettles, her baking trays for meringues, her strings of molds, and the country stove for baking her apple tarts."

fish-kettles (plural)

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