Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large-mouthed bottle or jar, usually fitted with a glass or metal cap for excluding air, used for preserving fruit; a preserve-jar.
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Examples
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What he'd agreed with, he soon found out, was that Atlas Strong Shoulder Jars could indeed replace Ball Perfect Mason Jars as the most popular fruit-jar collectibles in their class.
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What he'd agreed with, he soon found out, was that Atlas Strong Shoulder Jars could indeed replace Ball Perfect Mason Jars as the most popular fruit-jar collectibles in their class.
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The sugar was in a glass fruit-jar, and the cream came directly off a pan in the cold-box.
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A mixture, when prepared, should be put in a covered glass fruit-jar and kept on the ice.
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_To Prevent Cracking of Bottles and Fruit Jars: _ -- If a bottle or fruit-jar that has been more than once used is placed on a towel thoroughly soaked in hot water, there is little danger of its being cracked by the introduction of a hot liquid.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Bonnet and Amanda headed for the Spring, bearing a fruit-jar and the camp's only carving-knife, just as Uncle Joe came up the bank with a fine string of speckled trout.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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"There," said Blue Bonnet triumphantly, as she deposited the fruit-jar in the centre of the table with its graceful ferns and honeysuckle trailing over the oil-cloth, "feast on that!"
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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A box marked "Dynamite" was half-filled with odds and ends of empty tins, cooking-utensils, and among the things was a glass fruit-jar half filled with matches.
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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It was only a fruit-jar full, but I never saw anything swell so.
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It was only a fruit-jar full, but I never saw anything swell so.
The Making of an American Riis, Jacob A 1901
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