milkjug

plural milkjugs

1. alternativeAlternative form of milk jug.

   HDPE plastic is used in the manufacture of garden furniture, flower pots, toys, milkjugs and various other sorts of plastic containers.

   1990, Joy Palmer, Recycling Plastic, New York, N.Y.: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 8, column 2

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   Stephen reached back and took the milkjug from the locker. Part II [Odyssey], [Episode 12: Cyclops], page 296: On a handsome mahogany table near him were neatly arranged the quartering knife, the various finely tempered disembowelling appliances (specially supplied by the worldfamous firm of cutlers, Messrs John Round and Sons, Sheffield) a terracotta saucepan for the reception of the duodenum, colon, blind intestine and appendix etc when successfully extracted and two commodious milkjugs destined to receive the most precious blood of the most precious victim.

   Part I [Telemachia], [Episode 1: Telemachus], page 13

   By the middle 1760s, a Worcester tea and coffee service comprised forty-three pieces. Some of these shapes, such as teapots and creamjugs, had been in use at the factory for over ten years, but others, among them teacaddies and milkjugs, had been introduced more recently. […] This style of fluted teaware is invariably found in conjunction with ogee handle forms on cups, milkjugs and barrel-shaped teapots.

   1984, Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, London, →ISBN, pages 44 and 100

   He aimed himself to the right and a little above the powerhouse at the dam’s base, took his foot off the brakes and jammed it against his cargo of black milkjugs, pulled back on the wheel and soared steeply upward to the left. He pushed. The milkjugs tumbled out, set after set, sailing in graceful arcs toward the dam’s facade.

   1989, Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives!, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, published 1990, →ISBN, page 184

   Other Whieldon wares include cottages (with figures) and cow-creamers – milkjugs modelled in the shape of cow, with the tail curved to form the handle, the mouth pierced for the spout, and a hole in the back for filling.

   1989, Judith Miller, Martin Miller, editors, Miller’s Understanding Antiques, London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 84, column 4

   This shape, as the name may suggest, was a variation on the Queen Anne shape – indeed only the cup shape was modified whilst plates, milkjugs etc were exactly the same.

   1990, Susan Hill, The Shelley Style: A Collectors Guide, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks: Jazz Publications, →ISBN, page 22