lid

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A cover for the top of a container, such as a box, jar, or pan.

   I couldn't get the lid off the jam jar.

2. 2
   noun

   The fold of skin that covers the eye; an eyelid.

   Her lids grew heavy as she fell asleep.

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

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