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Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket..

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

Garibaldi :: Garibaldi (n.) A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

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

Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass..

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..

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..

Jackanapes :: Jackanapes (n.) A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

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

Roundabout :: Roundabout (n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.

Paltock :: Paltock (n.) A kind of doublet; a jacket.

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