kettling
Noun
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Noun
kettling (uncountable)
- 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.
- French: kettling
- German: Polizeikessel
- present participle of kettle#English|kettle
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