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• Jack

  ·noun The wall-eyed pike. II. Jack ·noun A sawhorse or sawbuck. III. Jack ·noun A young pike; a pi...

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• jack

  A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack

  1) Haifa pint. Yorks. 2) a quarter of a pint. ...

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

• Apple-jack

  ·noun Apple brandy. ...

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• Black-jack

  ·noun The ensign of a pirate. II. Black-jack ·noun The Quercus nigra, or barren oak. III. Black-ja...

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• California jack

  ·add. ·- A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours. ...

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• Cheap-jack

  ·noun ·Alt. of Cheap-john. ...

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• Jack Ketch

  ·- A public executioner, or hangman. ...

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• Minute-jack

  ·noun A timeserver; an inconstant person. II. Minute-jack ·noun A figure which strikes the hour on ...

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• Supple-jack

  ·noun A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliab...

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• London, Jack

  (b. 1876) American novelist. The Son of the Wolf (1900), The God of his Fathers, Children of the Fr...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• black jack

  1) A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves. 2) A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leath...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• glim jack

  A link-boy. CANT. ...

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• jack adams

  A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell. ...

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• jack ketch

  The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH. ...

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• jack pudding

  The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank. ...

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• jack robinson

  Before one could say Jack Robinson; a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very v...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack sprat

  A dwarf, or diminutive fellow. ...

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• jack tar

  A sailor. ...

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• jack weight

  A fat man. ...

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• jack whore

  A large masculine overgrown wench. ...

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• jack-bird

  n. a bird of the South Island of NewZealand, Creadion cinereus, Buller. See also Saddle-back and Cr...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jack shay

  or Jackshea, n. a tin quart-pot. 1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 209: «H...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• long-jack

  name given to the tree Flindersiaoxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called alsoLight Yellow-Wood. ...

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• station-jack

  n. a form of bush cookery. 1853. `The Emigrant's Guide to Australia.' (Article onBush-Cookery, fro...

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• supple-jack

  n. The word is English in thesense of a strong cane, and is the name of various climbingshrubs from...

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• apple jack

  A liquor distilled from cider; also called cider brandy. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flap-jack

  A fried cake; a pan-cake; a fritter. A word used alike in England and the United States, where it is...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• supple jack

  (Lat. rhamnus volubilis.) The popular name of a vine common to some of the Southern States. Twisted ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flop-jack

  a small pasty, or turn-over. Glouc. ...

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

• black-jack

  The ensign of a pirate. Also, a capacious tin can for beer, which was formerly made of waxed leather...

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• double-jack

  See jack-screw. ...

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• jack adams

  A stubborn fool. ...

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• jack afloat

  A sailor. Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman. ...

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• jack-barrel

  A minnow. ...

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• jack-block

  A block occasionally attached to the topgallant-tie, and through which the top-gallant top-rope is r...

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• jack-boots

  Large coverings for the feet and legs, outside all, worn by fishermen. ...

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• jack-hern

  A name on our southern coasts for the heron. ...

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• jack-knife

  A horn-handled clasp-knife with a laniard, worn by seamen. ...

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• jack-pins

  A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins. ...

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• jack robinson

  ♦ Before you could say Jack Robinson, is a very old expression for a short time, "A warke it ys as...

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• jack-screw

  A small machine used to cant or lift weighty substances, and in stowing cotton or other elastic good...

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• jack-shark

  A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe. ...

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• jack-sharp

  A small fresh-water fish, otherwise known as prickly-back. ...

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• jack-staff

  A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted. ...

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• jack-stays

  Ropes, battens, or iron bars placed on a yard or spar and set taut, either for bending the head of a...

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• lifting-jack

  A portable machine for lifting heavy objects, acting by the power either of the lever, the tooth and...

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• skip-jack

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

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• union-jack

  The union flag used separately; in the merchant service it must have a broad white border. ...

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• whip-jack

  An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.) ...

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• Jack-a-dandy

  ·noun A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow. ...

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• Jack-a-lent

  ·noun A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow. ...

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• Jack-o'-lantern

  ·noun ·see Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. ...

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• jack nasty face

  A sea term, signifying a common sailor. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack of legs

  A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...

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• Jack the Painter

  n. very strong bush-tea, socalled from the mark it leaves round the drinker's mouth. 1855. G. C. M...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jack-sharp-nails

  a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb. ...

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

• jack-o-legs

  a clasp knife. N. ...

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

• bread-room jack

  The purser's steward's help. ...

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• fresh-water jack

  The same as fresh-water sailor. ...

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• jack cross-trees

  Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts. ...

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• jack in office

  An insolent fellow in authority. ...

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• jack nasty-face

  A cook's assistant. ...

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• jack of dover

  An old sea-dish, the composition of which is now lost. Chaucer's host in rallying the cook exclaims,...

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• jack o' lantern

  The corpo santo, or St. Elmo's light, is sometimes so called. ...

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• Jack Alley, Bow Lane

  See Crown Court16, Trinity Lane. ...

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• jack at a pinch

  A poor hackney parson. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack in a box

  A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack in an office

  An insolent fellow in authority. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Jack in a Box

  i.q. Hair-trigger (q.v.). 1854. `The Home Companion,' p. 554: «When previously mentioning the eleg...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jack in the basket

  A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger. ...

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• jack in the box

  A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...

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• jack in the dust

  See jack in the bread-room ...

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• jib and staysail jack

  A designation of inexperienced officers, who are troublesome to the watch by constantly calling it u...

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• jack in the bread-room

  , or jack in the dust. The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room. ...

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