kettle vs slop-bowl

kettle

noun
  • A kettledrum. 

  • An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area. 

  • A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs. 

  • A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. 

  • A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole. 

  • The quantity held by a kettle. 

  • A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating. 

  • A steam locomotive 

verb
  • To contain demonstrators in a confined area. 

  • Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault. 

slop-bowl

noun
  • Part of a traditional tea set, used to empty the cold tea and dregs in tea cups before refilling with hot tea. Usually pottery or silver. 

How often have the words kettle and slop-bowl occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )