pea or p.-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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• 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

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

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• Pea

  ·noun ·see <<Peak>>, ·noun, 3. II. Pea ·noun The sliding weight on a steelyard. III. Pea ·noun A p...

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• Air jacket

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

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• Cardigan jacket

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

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• Norfolk jacket

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

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• Strait-jacket

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

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• leather-jacket

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

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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

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

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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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• p.-jacket

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

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• Angola pea

  ·- A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; — so called from Angola...

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• Chick-pea

  ·noun A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich...

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• Cich-pea

  ·noun The chick-pea. ...

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• coral pea

  n. another name for the Kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

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• darling pea

  n. an Australian plant, Swainsonia galegifolia, R. Br., N.O. Leguminosae;i.q. Indigo Plant (q.v.). ...

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• flat pea

  n. a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae. 1793. `Transactions of Li...

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• glory pea

  See glory flower i.q. clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• heart-pea

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea, coral

  n. See coral pea. ...

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• pea, darling

  n. See darling pea. ...

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• pea, desert

  n. See Sturt's Desert Pea. ...

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• pea, flat

  n. See flat pea. ...

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• pea, glory

  n. another namefor the Clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• pea, heart

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea-plant

  n. The term is applied sometimes toany one of various Australian plants of the N.O. Leguminosae. ...

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• pea-nut

  The common name for the fruit of the arachis hypogea. It is also called the ground nut and earth nut...

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• pea-ballast

  A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...

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• jacket-a-wad

  an ignis fatuus. Exm. ...

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• trimming a jacket

  Rope's-ending the wearer. ...

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• sturt's desert pea

  n. a beautiful creeper, Clianthus dampieri, Cunn., N.O. Leguminosae,which will only grow in very dr...

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