teakettle

noun

1. A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.

   “Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.”

   ““Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.””

   “Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove.”

verb

1. (intransitive, rare)To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.

   “The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.”

   “They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.”