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Definition of kettle hole in English: kettle holenoun Geology A hollow, typically filled by a lake, resulting from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits. Example sentencesExamples - For the last two summer vacations, every day I would head out in the morning to explore kettle holes, would find two or three small sites and would come home satisfied.
- The land includes a kettle hole, which will be utilized as a wetlands habitat for native plants and animals as well as an area to contain and clean storm runoff from the building's roof and parking areas.
- Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay.
- The form and stratigraphy of an oval peat-filled area north of Wolverhampton is investigated and interpreted as the filling of a kettle-hole formed during the retreat of the Irish Sea glacier.
- I am rubbish at sport, science and geography - although I can draw an excellent diagram of a kettle hole.
Definition of kettle hole in US English: kettle holenoun Geology A hollow, typically filled by a lake, resulting from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits. Example sentencesExamples - The land includes a kettle hole, which will be utilized as a wetlands habitat for native plants and animals as well as an area to contain and clean storm runoff from the building's roof and parking areas.
- For the last two summer vacations, every day I would head out in the morning to explore kettle holes, would find two or three small sites and would come home satisfied.
- The form and stratigraphy of an oval peat-filled area north of Wolverhampton is investigated and interpreted as the filling of a kettle-hole formed during the retreat of the Irish Sea glacier.
- I am rubbish at sport, science and geography - although I can draw an excellent diagram of a kettle hole.
- Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay.
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