noun. A pitcher, especially a decorative one with a base, an oval body, and a flaring spout.

noun. A water-bearer; a servant or household officer who supplied guests at the table with water to wash their hands, etc.

noun. A large water-pitcher with a wide spout, usually coupled with a basin for purposes of ablution.

noun. In decorative art, any vessel having a spout and handle, especially a tall and slender vessel with a foot or base. See aiguière.

noun. An udder.

noun. A kind of wide-mouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

noun. A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

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

"Now in this state of things, the general mode of eating must either have been with the spoon or the fingers; and this perhaps may have been the reason that spoons became an usual present from gossips to their god-children at christenings [78]; and that the bason and ewer, for washing before and after dinner, was introduced, whence the _ewerer_ was a great officer [79], and the _ewery_ is retained at Court to this day [80]; we meet with _damaske water_ after dinner [81], I presume, perfumed; and the words _ewer_ &c. plainly come from the"

pitcher  vessel  

cream pitcher  creamer  

Breuer  Brewer  Dewar  bluer  brewer  

amphorae  ashtray  bason  beaker  candlestick