Definition of jack

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"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.

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Wasp :: Wasp (n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets..
Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket..
Jack :: Jack (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak..
Minute-jack :: Minute-jack (n.) A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
Water Plate :: Water plate () A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather..
Honor :: Honor (n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors..
Jackknife :: "Jackknife (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife..
Jacketed :: "Jacketed (a.) Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket..
Knight :: Knight (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Jackal :: "Jackal (n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass..
Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc..
Crick :: Crick (n.) A small jackscrew.
Rhamnaceous :: Rhamnaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus)..
Jurel :: "Jurel (n.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel..
Sontag :: Sontag (n.) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress..
Jackanapes :: Jackanapes (n.) A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.
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