cauldron

• caldron

From Middle English, borrowed from Old Northern French caudron (Old French chaudron, chauderon), itself from a derivative of Latin calidārium (“cooking-pot”), caldārium from calidus (“hot”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːl.dɹən/

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cauldron (plural cauldrons)

1. A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I:

     Double, double toil and trouble;

     Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

   • 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 102:

     […] I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses … […]

   • 2004, Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools, Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC (2004), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:cauldron.

• kettle

• Courland, crunodal