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jars

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jars [järz]
(petroleum engineering)
A series of links in the drill string to connect drill cables to the drill bit; sets up the uneven motion on the upstroke that helps free the string of tools. Also known as jar coupling.
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Now, however, return home, and go about among the suitors; begin getting provisions ready for your voyage; see everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life, in leathern bags, while I go round the town and beat up volunteers at once.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
He said that was true; so he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context
O ye Tobosan jars, how ye bring back to my memory the sweet object of my bitter regrets
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