caudroun

• caldron, caldroun, cauderoun, caudorne, caudron, cawdoron, cawdren, cawdroun, chaldron, gaudron

Borrowed from Old Northern French cauderon (Parisien chauderon), ultimately from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”).

• IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈdruːn/, /ˈkau̯drun/, (rare) /t͡ʃau̯-/

caudroun (plural caudrouns)

1. A kettle (pot for boiling)

   Synonym: ketel

2. (rare) A unit of measure for coal

• English: cauldron (obsolete caldron, caudron); chaldron
• Scots: caudron, cauthron

• “caudrǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.