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A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold liquid. It has an opening, often narrow, from which to pour or drink, and often has a handle. Most jugs throughout history have been made of ceramic, glass or plastic . Some Native American and other tribes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deep vessel for carrying liquids," late 15c., jugge , variant of jubbe , of unknown origin, perhaps from jug "a low woman, a maidservant" (mid-16c.), a familiar alteration of a common personal name, Joan or Judith . Use as a musical instrument is attested ...
Usage examples of jug.
Major Stokes, pleased with their work, had produced three jars of arrack as a reward, and the jugs were being passed from hand to hand.
The Major was very slightly drunk and evidently intent on becoming more drunk for he snatched a whole jug of arrack from a servant, then scooped up two beakers from a table.
They stuffed one member, Pinky, into a tiny hole in a cargo hold on the stern, then took turns bagging the portholes, moonshine jugs, dishes, and other artifacts Pinky extracted.
He went down to the corner with Bock to mail his letter, and when he returned to the den Helen had prepared a large jug of cocoa.
And then, the next day, there are bowls of cashews on the table, a jug of tomato juice.
The sun stood at zenith, so hot and dry beating down on them that she began to think she was going to faint, but they finally stopped under the shade of a ceiba and she was allowed to drink from a jug of water stashed there.
Eadulf told her solemnly as they deposited the jug at her cubiculum and then went out into the quietness of the cloisters.
The children could be signed up for sailing lessons, daylong sailing lessons, overnight sailing lessons that involved trips to uninhabited islands where they would be left for three days with an iron pot and a book of matches and a jug of fresh water and be told to find their own ways home.
Boyd Shreave and Eugenie Fonda were sitting on a duffel bag, eating from plastic containers and sharing a gallon jug of water.
Yaninan sounded like wine pouring out of a jug too fast, glug, glug, glug.
The sudden spurt of flame reflected gorily from the spilled wine and the pieces of shattered jug, but there was no sign of Dust-Mouth.
The city would have been ringed in any event, whether Gurd had been wangled out the jug or not.
For the moment the last angry Bumblebee had disappeared inside it Johnnie Green stole quickly up from behind a haycock and slipped the cork into the mouth of the jug.
Soon he set the jug behind the sheltering haycock and sat down beside it to make further plans.
Smoked sausages wrapped in dock leaves were warming in the embers, and a jug full of holk sat in the flames.