kettle, noun

Origin:
Calqued on Afrikaans ketel.
A still. See also brandewyn ketel (brandewyn sense 2).
1973 S. Stander tr. of A.P. Brink’s Brandy in S. Afr. 158They hid their small farm ‘kettles’, barely large enough for two half-aum, in poplar plantations, in the vineyards or the vleis.
1973 S. Stander tr. of A.P. Brink’s Brandy in S. Afr. 159One day he and an excise man arrived at a farm where, they knew, the ‘kettle’ was often on the boil.
1976 G. & G. Fagan in Optima Vol.26 No.2, 79In 1823 Paul..distilled five-and-a-half leaguers of brandy in the kettle under the oak trees.
1980 C. Marais in Rand Daily Mail 7 Oct. 5‘The kettle will be dry until late in February, when the fruit is out.’ What Tant Mart would clearly love to do is keep the kettle and her stilling rights.
A still.
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