skip jacks

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• Skip

  ·noun A beehive; a skep. II. Skip ·noun A light leap or bound. III. Skip ·noun A charge of sirup i...

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• skip

  , skep a basket ; a bee-skep, a bee-hive. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• skip kennel

  A footman. ...

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• whip jacks

  The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• slap-jacks

  Pancakes made of the whole size of the frying-pan or spider. A country girl formerly was not conside...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jack's alive

  A once popular sea-port dance. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• skip-jack

  A dandified trifling officer; an upstart. Also, the merry-thought of a fowl. Also, a small fish of t...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• jack's quarter-deck

  The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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