kettle hole
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it.
Example Sentences
- "An adult male mammoth and four juveniles, trapped about 14,500 years ago in a boggy ʽkettle holeʼ left by a retreating glacier in Shropshire, are the most recent record in the UK."