2. (common.)—A jug; generally of brown earthenware. Cf., Black-jack.

1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, ch. xxiv. He ... stood behind

his oak, holding his brown George, or huge earthenware receptacle,

half full of dirty water, in which his bedmaker had been washing up

his tea-things.

1881. Besant and Rice, Chap. of the Fleet, pt. II., ch. iii. His

country brother might have been seen at the Crown, over a pipe and

a brown George full of strong October.

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