A noisy celebration of the homecoming of a newly married couple, involving the banging of pots, pans, and other metal objects.
it was deemed an honour to be given a tin-kettling
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They were welcomed back to Gundagai by a wild 'tin-kettling'.
The date of the tin-kettling was usually an open secret and the female friends and relatives of the bride provided food while the husband supplied liquor.
Sorry, old man. I'll try and clear 'em out as soon as I can, but they reckoned it wouldn't be a wedding without a tin-kettling.
People were soon in every room in the house doing what was done at tin kettlings.
Many of these folk provided the music for local barn dances, tin kettlings and community events.
Sometimes there would be a wild tin kettling to celebrate a local wedding.
This dastardly character had the cheek to hold tin kettlings outside of homes of newly-weds on the Lord's Day, and was fined five pounds.
Their tin-kettling promised to be one of the best ever held in the district because Herbie was rich and could afford plenty of bottles and kegs to celebrate with.