ewer

American  

[yoo-er] / ˈyu ər /

noun

1. a pitcher with a wide spout.

2. Decorative Art. a vessel having a spout and a handle, especially a tall, slender vessel with a base.

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ewer British  

/ ˈjuːə /

noun

1. a large jug or pitcher with a wide mouth

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Etymology

Origin of ewer

1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French evier < Latin aquārius vessel for water, equivalent to aqu ( a ) water + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

The tub may be wooden, the ewer convincingly rendered as base metal, but the bedding and Mary’s gown are of silk with golden threads that is recognizably Italian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

At medieval banquets, a ewer -- an impressive jug filled with rose water -- and basins for slop water would be taken around so that guests could deal with the sticky finger problem.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

But they’re irrelevant to counteracting the rupture of a vanished world that, a thousand years ago in China, brought about a stoneware ewer in the shape of a parrot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2019

We sat at a wooden table near a mural of Jorjadze, who was portrayed in her usual headpiece, watering a tree with rivulets of newspaper that poured out of a clay ewer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

At the bottom, upon a low pedestal carved like a branching tree, stood a basin of silver, wide and shallow, and beside it stood a silver ewer.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien