jughandle

jughandle
a) The handle of a jug.

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.

b) A ramp or slip road on the right-hand side of the road, used for making left turns.

...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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