a watch. A tin kittle is a silver watch. A red kittle is a gold watch. “Kettle,” or rather kittle, in slanglanguage is a corrupt rendering of the wordsto-tick read backwards. (Compare Anglo-Saxon cetel, a kettle, with citel-ian, to tickle.)
Thor’s great kettle. The godThor wanted to brew some beer, but not having a vessel suited for the purpose in Valhalla, stole the kettle of the giant Hymer. (Scandinavian mythology.)
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