ewer

American  

[yoo-er] / ˈyu ər /

noun

1. a pitcher with a wide spout.

2. Decorative Art. a vessel having a spout and a handle, especially a tall, slender vessel with a base.

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ewer British  

/ ˈjuːə /

noun

1. a large jug or pitcher with a wide mouth

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Etymology

Origin of ewer

1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French evier < Latin aquārius vessel for water, equivalent to aqu ( a ) water + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

The tub may be wooden, the ewer convincingly rendered as base metal, but the bedding and Mary’s gown are of silk with golden threads that is recognizably Italian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

A dragon curls its tail around the base of a golden, long-neck ewer, its body forming a handle of protruding, pointy scales.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

But they’re irrelevant to counteracting the rupture of a vanished world that, a thousand years ago in China, brought about a stoneware ewer in the shape of a parrot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2019

We sat at a wooden table near a mural of Jorjadze, who was portrayed in her usual headpiece, watering a tree with rivulets of newspaper that poured out of a clay ewer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

There a servant hastened to them with water in a golden ewer which she poured over their fingers into a silver bowl.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton