A glass preserving jar with a metal lid which forms an airtight seal, used to bottle fruit and vegetables.
Example sentencesExamples
- If freezing and wrapping seems too much like hard work, pesto will store well refrigerated in a Kilner jar for about three weeks.
- He also uncovers the fact that one of his forbears is not only called Kilner, but was a glass manufacturer - the inventor of the world-renowned and still used Kilner jar perhaps?
- Airtight storage for preserving food is now taken for granted, yet such items didn't exist until the 1890s when the world-renowned ‘Kilner jar’ went into production.
- He found that his great-great-grandfather Caleb Kilner invented the screw-topped, rubber-sealed Kilner jar in the 1890s - but the family fortune was squandered.