battleful

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Beck licked his chops and prepared to dump Boeing's 15,000 employees into the kettleful of fruit canners, clerks and dry cleaners whose dues were already pouring into the teamsters' treasury.

From Time Magazine Archive

It felt as though a kettleful of boiling water had been poured into my mouth.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

Rab came in with a kettleful of the warm, black, syrupy ink.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The Indian children would take a kettleful of water, make a fire under it, and throw fish or turtles from their bone hooks directly into this.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder

Thus a large kettleful of boiling water will evidently contain more heat than a teacupful, though both may be at the same temperature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various