magellan jacket

Related Words

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• leather-jacket

  A tropical fish with a very thick skin. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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