A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
Origin
From Middle English caudron, borrowed from Old Northern French caudron (Old French chaudron, chauderon), itself from a derivative of Latin caldārium, from calidus. Spelling later Latinized by having an l inserted. See chowder, caldera.
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