clay jar

collocation in English

meaningsofclayandjar

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clay
noun[U]
uk
/kleɪ/us
/kleɪ/
thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks ...
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jar
noun[C]
uk
/dʒɑːr/us
/dʒɑːr/
a glass or clay container with a wide opening at the top and sometimes a fitted lid, usually used for ...
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(Definition ofclayandjarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The baling is a decorativeclayjartreasured as heirloom.
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While he traveled with his friends, the scholar preserved all his food for the journey in aclayjarused for holding wine.
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The peliyuk is aclayjarwith cover used for cooking.
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Those vessels do not have the outermostclayjar, but are otherwise almost identical.
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At the end of the session, each voter tossed one of these into a largeclayjarwhich was afterwards cracked open for the counting of the ballots.
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On his farm all water was boiled and stored in clay jars so that the clay would absorb impurities.
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Use the clay jars and open flames well if you don't want to risk a direct confrontation.
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They were written on birch bark and stored in clay jars, which preserved them.
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The culture was characterized by the burial of the dead in a strongly flexed position on their sides in large clay jars.
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The condition of the scrolls indicates that they were already in poor condition and fragments by the time they were stored in the clay jars.
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Transporting of water was usually completed using clay jars, used by many of the residents, and only replaced in the 20th century by the typical plastic bottles.
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