leather-jacket

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• leather-jacket

  n. 1) A name applied popularly and somewhat confusedly to varioustrees, on account of the toughness...

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

• Leather

  ·noun The <<Skin>>. II. Leather ·vt To beat, as with a thong of leather. III. Leather ·noun The sk...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Leather

  A girdle of, worn by Elijah (2 Kings 1:8) and John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4). Leather was employed bot...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• leather

  To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle s...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• leather

  to beat ; I'll leather you heartily. N. ...

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

• leather

  See lather, to. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Leather

  The notices of leather in the Bible are singularly few; indeed the word occurs but twice in the Auth...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Jacket

  ·vt To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket. II. Jacket ·vt To <<Thrash>>; to <<...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jacket

  A doublet; any kind of outer coat. ♦ Cork jacket, is lined with cork in pieces, in order to give i...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Ooze leather

  ·add. ·- Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; ·esp., su...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Leather Lane

  North out of Holborn at No.128 (P.O. Directory). The extreme south-western corner only is in Farring...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• leather-head

  n. another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.), Philemon corniculatus, Lath.See Tropidorhynchus. 1847. ...

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

• leather-wood

  n. i.q. pinkwood (q.v.). ...

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

• scupper-leather

  A flap-valve nailed over a scupper-hole, serving to keep water from getting in, yet letting it out. ...

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• Air jacket

  ·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cardigan jacket

  ·- A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Norfolk jacket

  ·add. ·- A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pea-jacket

  ·noun A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Strait-jacket

  ·noun A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It h...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• thousand-jacket

  n. a North Island name for Ribbon-wood (q.v.), a New Zealand tree. Layer afterlayer of the inner ba...

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

• yellow jacket

  n. a name given to variousgum-trees, and especially to Eucalyptus melliodora,Cunn., E. ochrophlora,...

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

• air-jacket

  A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.) ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• magellan jacket

  A name given to a watch-coat with a hood, worn in high latitudes first used by Cook's people. ...

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• monkey-jacket

  A warm jacket for night-watches, &c. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pea or p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• jacket-a-wad

  an ignis fatuus. Exm. ...

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

• trimming a jacket

  Rope's-ending the wearer. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book