Cauldron vs Basin - What's the difference?
cauldron | basin |
A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
* 1623 , William Shakespeare,
* 1997 , J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , Raincoast Books, ISBN 9781551923963, page 102:
* 2004 , Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools , Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC (2004), ISBN 9781578633241,
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A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
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, author=Douglas Larson
, title=Runaway Devils Lake
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
As a noun cauldron
is a large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.As a proper noun basin is
a cdp in montana.cauldron
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Alternative forms
* caldronNoun
(en noun)Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I:
- Double, double toil and trouble;
- Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
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- Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.
Synonyms
* (l)basin
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}