caldron
Other forms: caldrons
A caldron is a large cooking pot, often with handles. If you're planning to cook chili for an entire Super Bowl crowd, it is recommended you use the caldron and not the saucepan.
A famous scene from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth shows the three witches casting a spell as they add ingredients into a caldron. Each time they add something to the big pot, like eye of newt or lizard's leg, they repeat the chorus of their spell in unison: "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."
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a very large pot that is used for boiling
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