giant's kettle

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giant's kettle [¦jī·əns ′ked·əl]

(geology)

A cylindrical hole bored in bedrock beneath a glacier by water falling through a deep moulin or by boulders rotating in the bed of a meltwater stream. Also known as giant's cauldron; moulin pothole; potash kettle.

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