p.-jacket

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• P

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• Jacket

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

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• jacket

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• p---k

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• Air jacket

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• Cardigan jacket

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• Norfolk jacket

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• Pea-jacket

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

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• Strait-jacket

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• leather-jacket

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• thousand-jacket

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

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• yellow jacket

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

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• air-jacket

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

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• leather-jacket

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• 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. ...

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• pea or p.-jacket

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

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• jacket-a-wad

  an ignis fatuus. Exm. ...

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• trimming a jacket

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• Left by Thomas Hinde, 1635, to the parson and churchwardens of the parish (End. Ch. St. Peter, 1903, p. 2).

  No later mention. Named after an owner or builder. ...

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