Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kettle under which a low flame is kept lighted so that there may be a continuous escape of vapor: used in giving vapor inhalations in eases of laryngitis, or to keep the atmosphere of the room humid.
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Examples
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I sent for preparations of sulphur, I rousted out the croup-kettle myself; for I don't sit down and wait for doctors when Sandy or the child is sick.
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He shied his helmet into the corner, and in half a minute he had a new wick in the alcohol lamp and was firing up on the croup-kettle.
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I sent for preparations of sulphur, I rousted out the croup-kettle myself; for I don't sit down and wait for doctors when Sandy or the child is sick.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8. Mark Twain 1872
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He shied his helmet into the corner, and in half a minute he had a new wick in the alcohol lamp and was firing up on the croup-kettle.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8. Mark Twain 1872
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He shied his helmet into the corner, and in half a minute he had a new wick in the alcohol lamp and was firing up on the croup-kettle.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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I sent for preparations of sulphur, I rousted out the croup-kettle myself; for I don't sit down and wait for doctors when Sandy or the child is sick.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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