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Boots
·noun A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
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boots
The youngest officer in a regimental mess, whose duty it is to skink, that is, to stir the fire, snu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack
1) Haifa pint. Yorks.
2) a quarter of a pint.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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jack
In the British navy the jack is a small union flag, formed by the intersection of St. George's and S...
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Top-boots
·noun ·pl High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper...
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dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sly boots
A cunning fellow, under the mask of simplicity.
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to fox boots
To foot boots, i. e. to repair boots by adding new soles, and surrounding the feet with new leather....
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to goose boots
To repair them by putting on a new front half way up, and a new bottom.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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.
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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
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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
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glim jack
A link-boy. CANT.
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jack adams
A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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jack sprat
A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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jack shay
or Jackshea, n.
a tin quart-pot.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 209:
«H...
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long-jack
name given to the tree Flindersiaoxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called alsoLight Yellow-Wood.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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station-jack
n.
a form of bush cookery.
1853. `The Emigrant's Guide to Australia.' (Article onBush-Cookery, fro...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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apple jack
A liquor distilled from cider; also called cider brandy.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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.
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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.
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flop-jack
a small pasty, or turn-over. Glouc.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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-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.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack of legs
A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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jack-sharp-nails
a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb.
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jack-o-legs
a clasp knife. N.
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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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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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jack at a pinch
A poor hackney parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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jack in an office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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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
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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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