A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.

present participle of kettle

A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. / The quantity held by a kettle.

(Britain, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area. / (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”)

plural of kettle

simple past tense and past participle of kettle

plural of kettleful

An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.

A surname.