water jug

English

Etymology

From water +‎ jug.

Noun

water jug (plural water jugs)

1. A jug used to hold water.
   • 1987, Judith Greene, Memory, thinking and language: topics in cognitive psychology:

     Polson and his colleagues have studied waterjug problems, which involve pouring quantities of water between jugs of different sizes...

   • 1997, Roland E Fleischer, Susan C Scott, Rembrandt, Rubens, and the art of their time: recent perspectives:

     Torrentius shows a stone waterjug, while Visscher has an ornate ewer, presumably in silver or gilt.

Translations

jug used to hold water

• Catalan: aiguamans (ca) m
• Finnish: vesikannu (fi)