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kittle noun Pronunciation of kettle. [DARE labels this pronunciation “chiefly South Midland”]

1813 Hartsell Journal 111 he kicked Several kiteles off the fire, and Spilt the Vituales that was in the Same. 1867 Harris Sut Lovingood 258 He’ll sizzil like a wet cat flung intu a kittil ove bilin fat. 1924 Spring Lydia Whaley 2 [I was] settin’ up and cutin’ [sic] up fruit when I saw a little black thing movin’ in the yard. Went out to it and give it a hard kick and it was my little, black kittle. 1969 GSMNP-38:110 They had big wash kittles to make the soap. 1972 AOHP/ALC-388 They had this great big fireplace in there, and they had that hook over the top of it where they could hang this kittle. 1989 Matewan OHP-9 We had a big kittle outside in a furnace, and we'd put [the sap from a sugar maple] in there and boil it and boil it and boil it and boil it down till it made sugar.