A small porous earthenware vessel used in South Asia and the Middle East for cooling drinking water through evaporation.
From Hindi 'gular' or 'gagal,' related to Arabic terms for similar vessels; entered English through colonial India in the 18th-19th centuries.
Guglets are an ancient climate-control technology—before refrigerators, people in hot climates used porous clay that let water seep through, and the evaporation cooled what remained inside, a principle still used today.
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