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cauldron Definition

caul·dron (kôldrən)

noun

cauldron Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • stir: He was stirring the caldron, not the melting pot, said some.
  • boil: Blue; Medea's boiling caldron embossed with a ram's head gold upon an open fire of logs inflamed proper.
  • bubble: A bubbling caldron which, in theory, should have produced the finest Paradise Lost album to date.
  • include: From this time archeologists have found new types of objects including large bronze cauldrons which would have been hung on chains above the fire.
  • have: The three sisters, like the three witches of Macbeth, have an exotic caldron on the bubble.
  • use: The huge caldron used to make pilaf had a special symbolic significance for the Janissaries, and was the focal point of each division.

Adjective modifier

  • seething: The world, like our brain, is a seething caldron of language.
  • magical: Beside, the Bannus - like the magical caldron of Celtic myth - provides whatever is asked of it.
  • magic: Her heart a magic caldron where we were all special.
  • huge: She could remember the men preparing a daily broth in a huge caldron over a fire in the fields.
  • large: The large copper caldron in which the objects were ultimately stored was undoubtedly used in the kitchen.

Modifies a noun

  • bubble: As they move " Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Noun used with modifier

  • bronze: A bronze caldron might be suspended from a tripod, by a chain, over the fire.
  • copper: The large copper caldron in which the objects were ultimately stored was undoubtedly used in the kitchen.
  • iron: Above the hearth hangs an iron caldron on a long chain, suspended from beams near the apex of the roof.
  • metal: Meat could be cooked in metal caldron, baked in the hot ashes or roasted on iron spits over the fire.

Possessives

  • witch: Listen to spooky stories, have your face painted, reach into the witch's caldron, get made up with disgusting wounds!

Preposition: of

  • inspiration: Its wonder-working vessel may have been the same as a caldron of inspiration that belonged to the goddess Ceridwen.
  • noise: The second half was a caldron of noise from the City end, all backing the team.
  • plenty: The story tells of how he thrust his hands into the ' caldron of plenty ' , to receive a gift for the earth.
cauldron Quotes

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

—Goering, HermannWilhelm

The boiling, churning caldron of America.

—Wright,James C,Jr

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