Informants said that this gulch was so named because the old road made a turn shaped like a jughandle in order to get down into the gulch and across it.
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Jughandle
Synonyms for "jughandle"
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Translations
7 translations across 3 languages.
Spanish
1 entries- raqueta noun (ramp or slip road)
Swedish
4 entries- bandyklubba noun (ramp or slip road)
- kannhantag noun (handle of a jug)
- spansk sväng noun (ramp or slip road)
- ögla noun (ramp or slip road)
Vietnamese
2 entries- quai bình noun (handle of a jug)
- đường quai bình noun (ramp or slip road)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
[…] only the first joints of his fingers would rest on the tiny ledge, pulling on it would weaken his grasp on the jughandle.
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A jughandle is the Jersey way of making a left turn without creating gridlock...
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A waiter appeared with ears that stuck out far enough to have held ten pens instead of just the one, […] He nodded and walked away, shouting our order to the old guy who, going by the size of the jug handles each side of his head, must have been his dad.
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