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

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

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.

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

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

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..

Pea-jacket :: Pea-jacket (n.) A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather..

Acton :: Acton (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail..

Sphalerite :: Sphalerite (n.) Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a)..

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)..

Crossjack :: Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast..

Jackknife :: "Jackknife (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife..

Jackstay :: "Jackstay (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened..

Jackdaw :: "Jackdaw (n.) See Daw, n..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..

Spinet :: Spinet (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used..

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

Jackal :: "Jackal (n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated..

Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

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