Usually means: Containment tactic used by police.
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  1. kettling: Merriam-Webster
  2. kettling: Wordnik
  3. kettling: Wiktionary
  4. Kettling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. kettling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. kettling: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (kettling)

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.
noun:  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.

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