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  1. noun A cylindrical glass or earthenware vessel with a wide mouth and usually no handles.
  2. noun The amount that a jar can hold.
  3. noun Chiefly British A glass of beer.
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  • His soldiers cast the jar into the Red Sea For two thousand years I languished inside the jar, my only comfort a trickle of seawater that seeped in, which I drank with relish, for it tasted of freedom When the jar was finally pulled from the sea by a fisherman, and I was released, I cared nothing about Solomon or Catch, only about my freedom. —  Practical Demonkeeping
  • Cookies snitched from the jar are always sweeter than those served on a plate, and nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. —  Practical Demonkeeping
  • It's not cheap - a jar was about $5.50 at Whole Foods - but still a small indulgence. —  The Kitchn
  • Coming at 60 pounds a jar is an instant hit amid claims that it 'freezes' muscles in a way similar to Botox. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • If the peanut oil wasn't kept stirred into the peanut butter, the peanut butter in the bottom of the jar was as hard to get out of the jar as it was to get it off of the roof of your mouth.
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bottle ·  pot ·  container ·  jug ·  vase ·  cans ·  bag ·  basket ·  barrel ·  plate ·  bucket ·  pan

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jar:   jars ·  jarred ·  jarring
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English jarre, a liquid measure, from Old French (from Provençal jarra) and from Medieval Latin jarra, both from Arabic jarra, earthen jar, from jarra, to draw, pull; see grr in Semitic roots.
  2. Perhaps of imitative origin.

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  1. Early modern English jar, jarre (besides jur, jurre); prob. a later form (with sonant j for surd ch: cf. jaw and English dial. jarme for charm = chirm, churm) of *char, *charre, *cherre, now spelled chirr and churr (cf. night-jar = night-churr, also churn-owl, the goatsucker, in reference to its cry). from Middle English *cherren, *cherien (not found), from Anglo-Saxon ceorian, cerian, murmur, complain, = Middle Dutch karien, also koeren, koerien, Dutch korren, coo, = Old High German kerren, Middle High German kerren, kirren, German kirren, coo, creak, crunch, = Danish kurre, coo, = Swedish kurra, rumble, croak. Cf. Middle High German gerren, garren, gurren, coo (also used of other sounds), German girren, coo; prob. = Latin garrire, chatter, prattle, talk, also croak (as a frog), sing (as a nightingale); and Sanskrit √ gar, sound, akin to English call: see call and garrulous. Words denoting sounds, even if not orig. imitative, are subject to imitative variation. Cf.jargle and jargon.
  2. Early modern English jar, jarre (besides jur, jurre) (cf. chirr, churr, n.); from the verb.
  3. from Middle English char, a turn; see ajar.
  4. from Old French jare, French jarre = Provencal jarra, guarra = Italian giara, giarra, formerly also zara, feminine, giarro, masculine, from Spanish Portuguese jarra, feminine, jarro, masculine, a jar, pitcher, from Arabic jarra, a ewer, a jug with pointed bottom, from Persian jarrah, a jar, earthen water-vessel. Cf. Persian jurrah, a little cruse or jar.
 

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