kettle hole

1. 1.

   (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits

   Synonymskettle

   Broaderhole

   geology

Questions about kettle hole

What does kettle hole mean?

kettle hole means "(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits".

What is another word for kettle hole?

Close synonyms include kettle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kettle hole a common word?

kettle hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.