kettledrummer

kettle-drum. kettle-furnace, s. Metallurgy: One who plays upon a 1. A basket-furnace or cre et in which lead or solder is melted for plumbing. 2. A furnace in which a kettle or kettles are set in a brick arch, as in sugar-boiling furnaces; or above a box-furnace, as in agricultural boilers. [EVAPORATOR.] *kettle-hat, s. A broad-brimmed iron hat worn by knights in the Middle Ages. *kettle-pins, s . pl . Ninepins, skittles. kettle-stitch, s. IMG:content-0223.png:[blocks in formation] respective ends. kevel-head, s. IMG:content-0224.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A portable instrument of metal for shooting the lock-bolt of a door; an instrument formed with cavities or interstices corresponding to the wards of a lock, by which the bolt is moved backward or forward. "With half a sigh she turned the key." Tennyson: The Letters, 18. (2) An instrument by which something is screwed round or turned. "Hide the key of the jack."- Swift : Directions to Ser. vants. (3) An instrument for drawing teeth. (4) The husk containing the seed of an ash. 2. Figuratively : (1) That by means of which anything is disclosed, explained, or rendered le difficult; a guide, a solution. "An emblem without a key to 't is no more than a tale of a tub."-L'Estrange. (2) That which gives power or control over a place or position. [ (2).] II. Technically: 1. Joinery: head and tail of a book. *ket-trin, s . [CATERAN.] kě-tu-pa, s. [A barbarous name with no meaning.] ( Sharpe.) Ornith.: A genus of Strigide. Ketupa ceylonen sis is the Indian Fish Owl. It frequents the sides of tanks, ponds, ., in Ceylon. When it cannot obtain fish, it will eat small mammals, reptiles, . During the day it is sometimes mobbed by bulbuls, king-crows, . Its note is like a loud, hollow, disagreeable "haw-haw-haw!" Another Indian species, K. flavipes , has similar habits.