EWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ewer mean? 

• EWER (noun)
  The noun EWER has 1 sense:

1. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

  Familiarity information: EWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ewer; pitcher

Hypernyms ("ewer" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ewer"):

cream pitcher; creamer (a small pitcher for serving cream)

 Context examples 

Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling, I rushed to his basin and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And then there was a gush as if a ewer had been upset, and down he sank upon the ground, with his head in the corner, twisted round at so strange an angle to his shoulders that one glimpse of it told me that my man was slipping swiftly from the clutch in which I had fancied that I held him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Four—an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Only master had been reading in his bed last night; he fell asleep with his candle lit, and the curtains got on fire; but, fortunately, he awoke before the bed-clothes or the wood-work caught, and contrived to quench the flames with the water in the ewer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)