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How to pronounce “kettling”
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Pronunciation guide for kettling
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of kettling with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 1 YouTube example
- Real speech example
- Rise Up, Women!
There's none of this pushing and shoving and kettling,
- Definition summary
- 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.
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How to pronounce kettling
Rise Up, Women!

There's none of this pushing and shoving and kettling,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “kettling”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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.
- 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.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of kettle
Practice Nearby Words
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