Definition of jack

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"Jack (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper..

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Jack :: "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.
Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak..
Bootjack :: Bootjack (n.) A device for pulling off boots.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou..
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..
Jacketed :: "Jacketed (a.) Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket..
Jack :: Jack (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..
Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
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..
Tomcod :: Tomcod (n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c)..
Sauce-alone :: Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
Jerkin :: Jerkin (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe..
Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.
Bed Screw :: Bed screw () A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching..
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..
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