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jar sb. (1 a 16th cent. use; 2 only S., cf. JAR vb. 2)
1. discord in music AYL. II. vii. 5 “If he, compact of jars, grow musical.”
2. tick (of the clock) Wint. I. ii. 43 “I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind What lady she her lord.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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