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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Jugged} (j[u^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Jugging} (j[u^]g"g[i^]ng).]
1. To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
2. To commit to jail; to imprison. [Slang]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jug \Jug\, verb (used without an object) (Zo["o]l.)
1. To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
2. To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), noun [Prob. fr. Jug, a corruption of, or nickname for, Joanna; cf. 2d Jack, and Jill. See {Johannes}.]
1. A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
2. A pitcher; a ewer. [Eng.]
3. A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] --Gay.
4. (pl.) A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs. [vulgar slang] [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jug
noun
1: a large bottle with a narrow mouth
2: the quantity contained in a jug [syn: {jugful}]
verb
1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate}, {lag}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {gaol}, {put away}, {remand}]
2: stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit" [also: {jugging}, {jugged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "jug": adobe, bastille, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calabash, calaboose, can, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, chokey, clink, confine, constrain, cooler, coop, crock, crockery, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, enamelware, ewer, fifth, firebrick, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, glass, gourd, hipflask, hoosegow, hot-water bottle, immure, incarcerate, jail, jar, jeroboam, lockup, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, pen, phial, pokey, porcelain, pot, pottery, prison, quod, refractory, slammer, stir, stoup, tile, tiling, urn, vacuum bottle, vase, vial
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