jug
1a large container usually made of earthenware, metal, or glass, commonly having a handle, a narrow neck, and sometimes a cap or cork.
the contents of such a container; jugful: a jug of wine.
to put into a jug.
to stew (meat) in an earthenware jug.
Slang. to put in jail; imprison.
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a sound made by a bird, especially a nightingale.
to make such a sound.
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How to use jug in a sentence
She has her clients squat while wearing backpacks or holding jugs of laundry detergent.
Keep the jug in a dark place, with a steady temperature between 60 to 70 degrees for the next two months.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-SciencePlastic drinking water jugs are fine for sap collecting, as are the classic little metal buckets.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThese vinegar jugs are thicker walled and stronger than water jugs.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBut perhaps the most spectacular lot in the sale is a silver jug, a birthday present to Churchill from his War Cabinet in 1942.
Churchill’s Secret Treasures for Sale: A British PM’s Life on the Auction Block | Tom Teodorczuk | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Another boy walks around and offers a water jug and basin for everyone to wash their hands.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe takes a 2-gallon jug of water out of his freezer and puts it in his insulated lunch bag.
‘Degree Mills’ Are Exploiting Veterans and Making Millions Off the GI Bill | Aaron Glantz | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe chicken was cut into large chunks and all the blood from both birds sat in a dirty old enamel jug.
Two Chickens, an Old Guitar, and a Group of Strangers: A Life-Changing Feast in Brazil | Annabel Langbein | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThroughout proceedings this jug was repeatedly raised and toasted to us, his audience.
Two Chickens, an Old Guitar, and a Group of Strangers: A Life-Changing Feast in Brazil | Annabel Langbein | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe carried a broken-lipped jug, and was on her way to the shop which was at least the second cause of all her woes.
The Garret and the Garden | R.M. BallantyneIn half an hour I caught the sound of locks and keys; the door opened, and the head-jailer handed me a jug of water.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoThe tremulous emotion I had observed increased as he said this, and again took the jug from my hand.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoAfter supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)I laid him out in a second with a stick, and Jim grabbed pap's whisky-jug and begun to pour it down.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for jug
/ (dʒʌɡ) /
a vessel for holding or pouring liquids, usually having a handle and a spout or lip: US equivalent: pitcher
Australian and NZ such a vessel used as a kettle: an electric jug
US a large vessel with a narrow mouth
Also called: jugful the amount of liquid held by a jug
British informal a glass of alcoholic drink, esp beer
a slang word for jail
to stew or boil (meat, esp hare) in an earthenware container
(tr) slang to put in jail
Origin of jug
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