a metal or plastic vessel used esp for boiling water, usu having a lid, handle, and spout and heated on a hob top of a stove or cooker or by an internal electric element
a steep-sided hollow in a glacial deposit, caused by the melting of a mass of underlying ice
a different/another kettle of fish
informal an altogether different matter
a pretty/fine kettle of fish
informal a muddled or awkward state of affairs
[a kettle of fish was an old Scottish term (occurring, for example, in Walter Scott) for a picnic at which freshly caught salmon were boiled and eaten. The practical difficulties of catching the fish and cooking it on the river bank suggest the idea of muddle][Middle English ketel from Old Norse ketill and Old English cietel, both ultimately from Latin catillus, dimin. of catinus bowl]