Definition of "olla"

olla

/ˈɒlə/

noun
plural ollas
1. A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
  Quotations
  On top of the counter were three clay jars or ollas. Two of them were empty but the third was covered with the tin lid from a lardpail and the lid was notched to accommodate the handle of an enameled tin dipper.
  1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
2. A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
3. An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
  Quotations
  An olla (which literally means “pot”) is a round, unglazed terra cotta clay pot with a long neck that you fill with water and bury next to your plants. It irrigates in the ground.
  2019 March 1, Mary Kathryn Dunston, Farmer's Almanac‎
4. A cinerary urn in ancient Rome.