Definition of jack

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"Jack (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack..

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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..
Caddow :: Caddow (n.) A jackdaw.
Saury :: Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring..
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Kadder :: Kadder (n.) The jackdaw.
Jack :: Jack (n.) The jurel.
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 familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Jane-of-apes :: "Jane-of-apes (n.) A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes..
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 flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State..
Jack :: Jack (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
Jackass :: Jackass (n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.
Penguin :: Penguin (n.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass..
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..
Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle..
Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Bluefish :: Bluefish (n.) A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack..
Jerkin :: Jerkin (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
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