DCHP-1 Online

cauldron caldron [an extension of cauldron a large kettle or boiler]

• n. the churning, seething mass of white water at the foot of a cataract.

  See also: chaudière  kettle ((1)) (def. 1)  

  • 1826  (1829)  . . . down they [the waters] tumble, in some places more than one hundred feet, into the cauldrons or kettles beneath. . . .
  • 1877  Beyond that it breaks into curling, gleaming rolls which end off in white, boiling cauldrons, where the water has broken on the rocks underneath.
  • 1964  Old Bytowners tell of more than one fight that ended conclusively in the cauldron beneath Chaudière Falls.