Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jar made to contain preserved meats, fruits, etc., so contrived that it may be tightly closed, to exclude the air and prevent evaporation.
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Examples
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They would be dill pickles in the heavenly preserve-jar.
The University of Hard Knocks Ralph Parlette 1900
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What roar was ever more terrible - what grasp more icy or relentless - than those of his father's butler surprising him in the cake box or the preserve-jar?
The end of an era, 1899
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