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nouna glass jar for preserving fruit or vegetables, usually holding one pint or one quart and having an airtight cap. Origin of fruit jarAn Americanism dating back to 1860–65 Words nearby fruit jarfruit fly, fruitful, fruiting body, fruition, fruitive, fruit jar, fruit knife, fruitless, fruitlet, fruit machine, fruit ranch Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fruit jar"I sho got plenty chancet to worry ifen I wants to," she mused, as she sipped water from a fruit-jar foul with fingermarks. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Work Projects Administration Mama Duck pushed the dog away from a cracked pitcher on the floor and refilled her fruit-jar. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States|Work Projects Administration He was instantly in the fruit-jar, where he seemed perfectly contented, sailing and diving as if he were on the pond. The Believing Years|Edmund Lester Pearson Add a cup of water, and, when cold, put it in a bottle or fruit-jar. Health on the Farm|H. F. Harris
A large chimney, or fruit-jar, may be used to surround the leaves, and to keep currents of air from them. The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment|Thomas M. St. John
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