boiler n EDD ~ 1 'large kettle' for sense 1.
   1 A large metal cooking pot.
   [1820] 1915 HOWLEY 86 There were two iron boilers which must have been plundered from our settlers. 1887 Telegram Christmas No 9 The tea-kettle sang a cheery song, in perfect harmony with the hubble-bubble of a boiler, its companion, in which a big figgy pudding, rich with galores of suet and citron, was already undergoing the beginning of its long boil. [1900 OLIVER & BURKE] 46 The tinsmiths were kept busy furnishing the cook with boats' kettles for tea and boilers to cook the celebrated 'duffs.' 1932 BARBOUR 22 The boys took off the hatches, opened the barrel and took out a large piece of pork. We cut it up into small pieces and threw all into a five-gallon boiler. 1966 SCAMMELL 91 Let's have a bite of lunch before we start on our second puntload. Pass back that old boiler there in the cuddy. 1978 Evening Telegram 20 July, p. 16 How many children nowadays ever had the pleasure of going out in the country with their mother and father and boilin' up a boiler of corned beef and cabbage. Not only in troutin' season but in berry pickin' time especially.
   2 In hopscotch, the central square or section into which the flat stone is thrown to start the game.
   T 417/9-67 In order to start at all you had to turn backwards and put your flat rock in the boiler; it had to go in the boiler. [Then] hop in the boiler, hop in the next two, hop on one foot in the next one, stop, pick up your rock. M 68-21 If we got tired of hopping around we could jump in [the boiler] and stand on both feet for a rest before going back to the block where we left our stone.

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