Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A jug, usually of pottery, formed in a grotesque shape like Punch.

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Examples

  • And then, while they were still in the middle of all this; when the punch-jug had given way to the teapot, and the rector was beginning to bethink himself that a nap in his armchair would be very refreshing, Jerry came into the room to announce that Richard had come over from Castle Richmond with a note for “his riverence.”

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • And then, while they were still in the middle of all this; when the punch-jug had given way to the teapot, and the rector was beginning to bethink himself that a nap in his armchair would be very refreshing, Jerry came into the room to announce that Richard had come over from Castle Richmond with a note for "his riverence."

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

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