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# kettleful

«kettleful» in Mova's school dictionary: **as much as one kettle can hold** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (kettleful, kettlefuls)

### meaning for a pupil

A kettleful is as much as one kettle can hold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kettleful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

an amount of liquid poured or emptied in a tale; the story uses it as a large container's worth of pitch

### examples

- A kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kettleful/#x1)
- Mum made a kettleful of tea for everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kettleful/#x2)
- We filled the bucket with three kettlefuls of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kettleful/#x3)

### note

a kettleful is one amount, not a count of items; if a problem says 3 kettlefuls, multiply one kettle's amount by 3.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kettleful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kettleful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.