kettleful
nounEtymology * from kettle + -ful
1
An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
- Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her.1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories: