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JUG

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Irregular inflected forms: jugged    , jugging   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large bottle with a narrow mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jug" is a kind of...):

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jug"):

bellarmine; greybeard; long-beard; longbeard (a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century))

water jug (a jug that holds water)

whiskey jug (a jug that contains whiskey)

Derivation:

jug (stew in an earthenware jug)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a jug

Synonyms:

jug; jugful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("jug" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

jug (stew in an earthenware jug)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stew in an earthenware jug

Example:

jug the rabbit

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "jug" is one way to...):

stew (cook slowly and for a long time in liquid)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

jug (a large bottle with a narrow mouth)

jug (the quantity contained in a jug)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Example:

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Synonyms:

gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "jug" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to jug the prisoners

Credits

 Context examples: 

His hostess would hear nothing of his paying either for bed or for board, while the archer and Hordle John placed a hand upon either shoulder and led him off to the board, where some smoking fish, a dish of spinach, and a jug of milk were laid out for their breakfast.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heaved them up, deluged the bed and its occupant, flew back to my own room, brought my own water-jug, baptized the couch afresh, and, by God's aid, succeeded in extinguishing the flames which were devouring it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She fainted when she saw me return, and made a little jug of egg-hot afterwards to console us while we talked it over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So away she went for it: but she managed to set it down just upon the great jug full of beer, and upset it; and thus all the ale that had been saved was set swimming on the floor also.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The milkman, after shaking his head at her darkly, released her chin, and with anything rather than good-will opened his can, and deposited the usual quantity in the family jug.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She ran down, set a jug, said: “God bless it for you, Gretel,” and took a good drink, and thought that wine should flow on, and should not be interrupted, and took yet another hearty draught.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Mr. Micawber immediately descended to the bar, where he appeared to be quite at home; and in due time returned with a steaming jug.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king’s dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Jugs of water, and watering-pots, were kept in secret places ready to be discharged on the offending boys; sticks were laid in ambush behind the door; sallies were made at all hours; and incessant war prevailed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)