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jughandle

noun

Etymology

From jug + handle.

  1. inherited from *handulōną✻ — “to take, grip, feel”
  2. inherited from *handulōn✻
  3. inherited from handlian — “to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”
  4. inherited from handlen
  5. compounded as jughandle — “jug + handle”

Definitions

  1. The handle of a jug.

    • Informants said that this gulch was so named because the old road made a turn shaped like a jughandle in order to get down into the gulch and across it.
    • […] only the first joints of his fingers would rest on the tiny ledge, pulling on it would weaken his grasp on the jughandle.

  2. A ramp or slip road on the right-hand side of the road, used for making left turns.

    • A jughandle is the Jersey way of making a left turn without creating gridlock...

  3. A large ear.

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