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Mason jar

noun

Etymology

Named after American tinsmith John Landis Mason (1832–1902), who first invented and patented it in 1858.

Definitions

  1. A glass jar with a screw top, often used for preserving food.

    • Yesterday, I went outside / With my momma's mason jar / Caught a lovely butterfly

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Mason jar.

    • In order to make a cold herbal tea you need a clean jar with a fairly wide mouth, such as a mason jar.
    • I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that if I take a mason jar from my kitchen cabinet, walk out to the street and drop it, that it will shatter into lots of tiny pieces.
    • After passing off the bracelets to Thanh and me, one of the elders then shoved into my hands a mason jar of the Montagnard moonshine that had gone down like Drano the night before last, cleaning out all my pipes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA