Definition of "jug" []

• A large, often rounded vessel of earthenware, glass, or metal with a small mouth, a handle, and usually a stopper or cap. (noun)
• The amount that a jug can hold. (noun)
• A small pitcher. (noun)
• Slang A jail. (noun)
• Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts. (noun)

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• "You know right away how you've done and the jug is about the same size as the heart/lungs on a deer."
• "In Taoist fashion, the jug is a clearing through which the fourfold comes to presence, as it gathers together the earth's soil and the sky's rain in wine that mortals pour in libation to the gods."
• "The empty space, this nothing of the jug, is what the jug is as the holding vessel ... [t] he vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds."