Word Finder - jug

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A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.

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The amount that a jug can hold.

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Jail.

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(chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.

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A kettle.

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(chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.

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To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

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jugged hare

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To put into jail.

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To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

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(of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

That jug is grade double A light.

My furniture, part of which I made myself--and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account--consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.

A few minutes later, Jake returned with a jug of water, appearing less than excited.

In an attempt to calm his wife's progressive nervousness, and because he too felt like a snort, Dean broke out a jug of left over Christmas cheer.

A fowl was killed, as well as a small jug of corn beer drunk.

One of his best finds was a 13th century green glaze jug.

He just roamed the room with a white half gallon enamel jug topping up glasses.

They couldn't keep that up very long without getting winded, so by and by they settled around the jug again.

Compares with an earthenware slipware jug made by Michael Cardew in the 1930's.

Linda tries to get her off by smashing a jug kettle over her head, which knocks Kay out.

The chamber pot (a wide jug with a handle) was the most common toilet receptacle.

Pour a little sauce over the trout and serve the remaining sauce in a warmed sauceboat or jug.

An electric knife, an electric tin opener, a kettle tipper (I prefer to use a jug kettle ).

Julie and I sat there with a jug of Sangria between us, and mellow vibes abounded.

An electric knife, an electric tin opener, a kettle tipper (I prefer to use a jug kettle).

They could n't keep that up very long without getting winded, so by and by they settled around the jug again.

For this project you'll need several milk or juice jug lids.

Use a beautiful Talavera vase or jug as a table's centerpiece.

When you plant your seedlings, take a plastic bottle such as a milk jug or two-liter bottle of soda, cut the top off and "plant" the bottle around your seedling.

The unit includes a small refrigerator that holds a one-gallon jug of milk.

Consider getting a black and white portrait of a water carrier with colorful water being poured from the jug.

If you want to celebrate your birth mother with a portrait tattoo, perhaps she can be the one pouring the water jug to represent the life she has given you.

A buxom character with curves and flowing hair can pour the infamous water jug while donned in a sexy pair of heels.

Whether you work out at home because of want or need, you can still be in great shape with little more than a pair of shoes and maybe a gallon jug or two.

Dean dusted off a Christmas present bottle of VO with thoughts of re-igniting the glow from Ethel's gin and chasing away the gloom of the empty house but one sip and he re-capped the jug, deciding it wasn't a good idea.

In the case of gastric dilatation from pyloric obstruction great relief may be afforded by washing out the viscus by means of a long rubber tube, a funnel, and a jug of hot water, as originally suggested by Adolf Kussmaul.

Vibrations of this kind are observed whenever liquid issues from an elliptical or other non-circular hole, or even when it is poured from the lip of an ordinary jug; and they are superposed upon the general progressive motion.

After explaining their predicament, he offered them water from a jug strapped to the rear of the vehicle that looked as old as its dusty driver.

Climb directly up the vague arete above the good jug (the normal route trends up rightwards ).

The jug gets knocked down, but worse, Polly lies to her mother about having taken the broth.

On the plus side you can boil a very small amount of water in any jug kettle, as little as a single cupful.

Then use the pouring jug to pour into your mold.

I very much love traditional English ceramics, and the decorated family jug is a most striking object.

However, the rounded rimmed unglazed drinking jug (R6) is probably earlier.

A broken Ray Finch jug, a large stoneware jug by Ray Finch, made in 1996.

One of these, a ceramic jug, has a ballad, ' The Greenwich Pensioner ' printed on its sides.

At night I took two of these pads to bed with me, together with a full Thermos jug.

I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.