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Rarekettling
The correct spelling is kettling.
How to pronounce kettling
verb
Say it like: Ket-tli-ng
The correct spelling is kettling. (of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
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Meanings
verb
- 1.(of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
noun
- 1.A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.
- 2.The situation where water gets trapped in the heat exchanger of a boiler (e.g. due to limescale build-up), resulting in knocking sounds as it turns into expanding steam.
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