Jug

Definition of Jug

Pronunciation: jŭg

n.	1.
	1.	A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
	2.	A pitcher; a ewer.
	3.	A prison; a jail; a lockup.
	4.	A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs.
v. t.	1.	To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
	2.	To commit to jail; to imprison.
v. i.	1.	(Zool.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
	2.	To nestle or collect together in a covey; - said of quails and partridges.

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adobe, bastille, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calabash, calaboose, can, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, chokey, clink, confine, constrain, cooler, coop, crock, crockery, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, enamelware, ewer, fifth, firebrick, flacon, flasket, glass, gourd, hipflask, hoosegow, hot-water bottle, immure, incarcerate, jail, jeroboam, lockup, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, pen, phial, pokey, porcelain, pot, pottery, prison, quod, refractory, slammer, stir, stoup, tile, tiling, urn, vacuum bottle, vase, vial

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