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Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..

Jack-o''-lantern :: "Jack-o'-lantern (n.) See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack..

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..

Jack :: Jack (n.) The wall-eyed pike.

Honor :: Honor (n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors..

Ketch :: Ketch (n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.

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..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather..

Natterjack :: Natterjack (n.) A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back..

Bootjack :: Bootjack (n.) A device for pulling off boots.

Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..

Jacksaw :: Jacksaw (n.) The merganser.

Blende :: Blende (n.) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.

Jackeen :: "Jackeen (n.) A drunken, dissolute fellow..

Sontag :: Sontag (n.) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress..

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal..

Pike :: Pike (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc..

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