JUG (jugged, jugging)

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Irregular inflected forms: jugged    , jugging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does jug mean? 

• JUG (noun)
  The noun JUG has 2 senses:

1. a large bottle with a narrow mouth

2. the quantity contained in a jug

  Familiarity information: JUG used as a noun is rare.

• JUG (verb)
  The verb JUG has 2 senses:

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

2. stew in an earthenware jug

  Familiarity information: JUG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large bottle with a narrow mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jug" is a kind of...):

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jug"):

bellarmine; greybeard; long-beard; longbeard (a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century))

water jug (a jug that holds water)

whiskey jug (a jug that contains whiskey)

Derivation:

jug (stew in an earthenware jug)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a jug

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

jug; jugful

Hypernyms ("jug" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

jug (stew in an earthenware jug)

• JUG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jug    ... he / she / it jugs   
Past simple: jugged   
Past participle: jugged   
-ing form: jugging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand

Context example:

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Hypernyms (to "jug" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to jug the prisoners

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stew in an earthenware jug

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

jug the rabbit

Hypernyms (to "jug" is one way to...):

stew (cook slowly and for a long time in liquid)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

jug (a large bottle with a narrow mouth)

jug (the quantity contained in a jug)

 Context examples 

“It is milk, worthy sir,” answered the peasant-maid, who stood by the door of a cottage with a jug in her hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) in a jug.

(Jug Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the prisoner’s face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon which he poured it out of a jug into a large tumbler, and held it up against the light, and made it look beautiful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How providential that he had presence of mind to think of the water-jug!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were also a clothes brush, a brush and comb, and a jug and basin—the latter containing dirty water which was reddened as if with blood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The beer ran into the jug and Catherine stood looking on.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Chris said that as long as they were at Crawley before the George shut up they could work it. ‘It’s poor pay for a chance of a rope,’ said Red Ike. ‘Rope be damned!’ cried Chris, takin’ a little loaded stick out of his side pocket. ‘If three of you ’old him down and I break his arm-bone with this, we’ve earned our money, and we don’t risk more’n six months’ jug.’ ‘’E’ll fight,’ said Berks. ‘Well, it’s the only fight ’e’ll get,’ answered Chris, and that was all I ’eard of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Mr. Micawber, who had been helping us all, out of the wash-hand-stand jug, replied: To Canterbury.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)