Definition of jack

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"Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat..

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Jacketing :: "Jacketing (n.) The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing..
Jack :: Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
Kadder :: Kadder (n.) The jackdaw.
Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed..
Honor :: Honor (n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors..
Slapjack :: Slapjack (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
Juppon :: "Juppon (n.) A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips..
Jackman :: "Jackman (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n..
Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples..
Jackman :: Jackman (n.) A cream cheese.
Jackmen :: Jackmen (pl. ) of Jackma.
Split :: Split (v. i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value..
Jack :: "Jack (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket..
Paltock :: Paltock (n.) A kind of doublet; a jacket.
Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle..
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