Hydria

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hydria (ˈhaɪdrɪə)
 
n
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a large water jar
 
[C19: from Latin, from Greek hudria, from hudōr water]

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Hydria is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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hydria

large water vessel in Greek pottery of the Archaic period (c. 750-c. 480 BC) and the Classical period (c. 480-c. 330 BC). It is found in both the black-figure and the red-figure pottery (qq.v.) styles. The hydria is distinctive in having three handles: a pair of small, horizontal handles at the sides for lifting and a large, vertical handle at the neck or shoulder for dipping and pouring.

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