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JUG , a See also:

vessel for holding liquid, usually with one handle and a See also:lip, made of earthenware, See also:glass or See also:metal. The origin of the word in this sense is uncertain, but it is probably identical with a shortened See also:form of the feminine name See also:Joan or See also:Joanna; cf. the similar use of See also:Jack and Jill or Gill for a drinking-vessel or a liquor measure. It has also been used as a See also:common expression for a homely woman, a servant-girl, a sweetheart, sometimes in a sense of disparagement. In See also:slang, " jug " or " See also:stone-jug " is used to denote a See also:prison; this may possibly be an See also:adaptation of Fr. joug, yoke, See also:Lat. jugum. The word "jug" is probably onomatopoeic when used to represent a particular See also:note of the See also:nightingale's See also:song, or applied locally to various small birds, as the hedge-jug, &c. The See also:British Museum contains a remarkable See also:bronze jug which was found at Kumasi during the See also:Ashanti Expedition of 1896. It See also:dates from the reign of See also:Richard II., and is decorated in See also:relief with the arms of See also:England and the badge of the See also:king. It has a lid, spout and handle, which ends in a See also:quatrefoil. An inscription, on three raised bands See also:round the See also:body of the vessel, modernized runs: —" He that will not spare when he may shall not spend when he would. Deem the best in every doubt till the truth be tried out." The British Museum See also:Guide to the See also:Medieval See also:Room contains an See also:illustration of this vessel. A particular form of jug is the " ewer," the precursor of the See also:ordinary bedroom jug (an adaptation of O. Fr. ewaire, med.

Lat. aquaria, See also:

water-See also:pitcher, from aqua, water). The ewer was a jug with a wide spout, and was principally used at table for pouring water over the hands after eating, a See also:matter of some See also:necessity before the introduction of forks. See also:Early ewers are sometimes mounted on three feet, and See also:bear See also:inscriptions such as Venez laver. A See also:basin of similar material and See also:design accompanied the ewer. In the 13th and 14th centuries a See also:special type of metal ewer takes the form of animals, men on horseback, &c.; these are generally known as aquamaniles, from med. Lat. aqua manile or aqua manale (aqua, water, and manale, to trickle, pour, drip). The British Museum contains several examples. In the 18th and early 19th centuries were made the drinking-vessels of pottery known as " Toby jugs," properly Toby Fillpots or Philpots. These take the form of a stout old See also:man, sometimes seated, with a three-cornered See also:hat, the corners of which See also:act as spouts. Similar drinking-vessels were also made representing characters popular at the See also:time, such as " See also:Nelson jugs," &c.

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