olla

A rounded earthenware pot or jar, used especially for cooking or for carrying water.

An olla podrida.

Same as ola, olay.

In Spanish countries, an earthen jar or pot used for cooking and other purposes, or a dish of meat and vegetables cooked in such a jar.

An olio.

A large porous earthenware jar or jug in universal use in the southwestern parts of the United States and Territories for holding drinking-water, which is kept cool by the evaporation of moisture through the substance of the jar.

In archaeology, a form of vase more properly called stamnos.

A favorite Spanish dish consisting of a mixture of all kinds of meat, cut into small pieces and stewed, with various kinds of vegetables.

Hence— Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection.

A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.