Afternoon, chums!
I can’t comment on the thesaurus details
of this, but these jars (and I have a good acquaintaintance with stone cider
and beer jars – as we called them in Somerset, which sometimes led to
confusion) had a cork in the bunghole, into which was set a wooden or metal
tap, with a horizontal flat upper to turn it. The cork usually failed after a
while, but it dripped for a bit before there was a catastrophic failure and a
flooded shed / larder floor!
This site has a photograph of one with
the tap still at (this a slightly different design of tap to
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/stone-cider-jar-pearsons-chesterfield-246511642
Vince
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Subject: Tap Jar
Hello
all
Can
anyone help? Do you know which Thesaurus term would fit this object (see
picture). The article refers to them as ‘tap-jars’. I had thought
of ‘demi-john’ but that doesn’t really fit and that
doesn’t appear in the thesaurus either.
Could
I call it a ‘BUNGHOLE JAR’?
Thank
you
Best
wishes
Sarah
Sarah
Botfield BA (Hons), MPhil
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