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Word entry · 3 letters

jar

Best crossword clue

"Container for jam"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /d͡ʒɑː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ajrStarts with JEnds with R12 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. place in a cylindrical vessel

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).

Used in a sentence

  • She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.
  • Lucy Orrinsmith praised the charms of green glazed vases from the Aures mountains and Tunisian coarse clay and terracotta jars.
  • The Leyden jar is charged, like the condenser of Œpinus and the fulminating square, by making one of the armatures communicate with the earth and the other with the electric source.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues

01Container for jam3 letters
02Container for pickles3 letters
03Container with a lid3 letters
04Glass container for jam3 letters
05Glass storage vessel3 letters
06Jam container3 letters
07Lidded glass container3 letters
08Lidded glass vessel3 letters

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