giant's kettle

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giant's kettle

  • /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənts ˈkɛ.təl/

noun giant's kettles

  1. A typically large and cylindrical pothole drilled in solid rock underlying a glacier either by water descending down a deep moulin or by gravel rotating in the bed of subglacial stream.

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noun cylindrical pothole

Españolmarmita de gigante, marmita
Portuguêsmarmita de gigante, marmita

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@misc{giant_s_kettle_2026,
  title = {giant's kettle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/giant's%20kettle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}