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Kettling vs Kettle - What's the difference?

kettling | kettle |

As nouns the difference between kettling and kettle

is that kettling is a crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group while kettle is a vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.

As a verb kettle is

(british|of the police) to contain demonstrators in a confined area.

kettling

English

Noun

(-)
  • A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.

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    kettle

    English

    (wikipedia kettle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
    • To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.
    There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
  • The quantity held by a kettle.
  • (British) A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle.
    • Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
  • (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
  • (Raptors) (ornithology) A collective term for a group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
  • * 2006 , Keith L. Bildstein, Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology & Conservation - Page 76 :
    • The term kettle refers to a group of raptors wheeling or circling in a thermal.
  • * 2010 , Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico :
    • Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.
  • (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
  • (musical instruments) A kettledrum.

    • Usage notes

    In most varieties of English outside the United States (UK, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian), if not specified otherwise, the kettle usually refers to a vessel for boiling the water for tea.

    Derived terms

    * kettle of fish * teakettle or tea kettle

    See also

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    Verb

    (kettl)
  • (British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
  • * 2009 , John O'Connor, G20: The upside of kettling , Guardian, pages http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/apr/02/police-g20-protest-kettling:
    • ... to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling , is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.

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