Crossword-Solution: JUG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jug | n. | A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side. |
| Jug | n. | A pitcher; a ewer. |
| Jug | n. | A prison; a jail; a lockup. |
| Jug | v. t. | To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare. |
| Jug | v. t. | To commit to jail; to imprison. |
| Jug | v. i. | To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale. |
| Jug | v. i. | To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| JUG | anagram | GJU |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with JUG (5)
Alexandra, will you get the cream jug? I put it in the window to keep cool.” “The Bohemians,” said Alexandra, as they drew up to the table, “certainly know how to make more kinds of bread than any other people in the world.
The glasses and cups still stood upon the table, a water-jug being overturned, from which a small rill, after tracing its course with marvellous precision down the centre of the long table, fell into the neck of the unconscious Mark Clark, in a steady, monotonous drip, like the dripping of a stalactite in a cave.
The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire.
There is no competent, and lasting, and real reform for him but to take away his whiskey entirely, and fill up his jug with Pitman’s wholesome and undiseased alphabet.
There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow.
Quotes with JUG (3)
You! You tricked me! I never want to see you or that bottle of liquid arsenic again!” I chucked the empty moonshine jug at him. Or tried to. It missed him by a dozen feet. He picked it up in astonishment. “You drank the whole bloody thing? You were only supposed to have a few sips!”“Did you say that? Did you?” He reached me just as I felt the ground tip. “Didn’t say anything. I’ve got those names, so that’s all that matters, but you men…you’re all alike. Alive, dead, undead —…
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, p…
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest, listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 108 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).