DCHP-2

kettle ((1)) 1 [trans. of Cdn F chaudière in similar senses] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  See 1903 quote.

  See also: cauldron  

  • 1793  (1933)  In sight of the fort of Lake La Pluie is the Kettle fall, causing a portage.
  • 1826  (1829)  . . . down they [the waters] tumble, in some places more than one hundred feet, into the cauldrons or kettles beneath. . . .
  • 1903  . . . he saw a cloud of mist rising from the falls, which the Indians called the "Asticou," which means "Chaudiere" in French, or "kettle" in English, for the water has worn a deep basin into which it rushes with a swirling motion which boils up in the midst like a kettle.
  • 1964  . . . a lot of young shantymen ended their journey short of Quebec in the Big Kettle at the foot of the falls.

• 2 n.

  See 1824 quote.

  See also: pothole (def. 1a)  

  • 1790  (1905)  [Commencing at the mouth of the River au Chaudière or Kettle Creek . . . to the first south Fork. . . .]
  • 1824  (1955)  There are also found at some parts of this River small round regular cavities in the Rocks, the Canadians call Kettles somes of them far above the present level of the River they are formed I imagine by the waters hollowing the softer substances of the Rock often of a round form & the round stones geting into these hollows & keep in a circular motion form these Cavities or Kettles.
  • 1873  (1904)  Some of these kettles are tiny as a teacup; others are huge as the tun of Heidelberg.
  • 1954  . . . I had panned . . . the gravel and sand from the great potholes and "kettles" worn in the walls of the canyon. . . .