Waterjug

Origin

water + jug

Full definition of waterjug

Noun

1. A jug used to hold water.
• 1987, Judith Greene, Memory, thinking and language: topics in cognitive psychologyPolson 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 perspectivesTorrentius shows a stone waterjug, while Visscher has an ornate ewer, presumably in silver or gilt.