Norfolk jacket

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• Norfolk

  ·add. ·noun Short for Norfolk Jacket. ...

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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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• Norfolk dumpling

  ·add. ·- A native or inhabitant of Norfolk. II. Norfolk dumpling ·add. ·- A kind of boiled dumpling...

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• Norfolk plover

  ·add. ·- The stone curlew. ...

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• Norfolk spaniel

  ·add. ·- One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a live...

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• (Duke of) Norfolk', Place

  Capital messuage of John Cooke, called the "Duke of Norfolkes place," and other messuages at Broken ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• norfolk capon

  A red herring. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• norfolk dumpling

  A nick name, or term of jocular reproach to a Norfolk man; dumplings being a favourite food in that ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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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• Pea-jacket

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

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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...

  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.) ...

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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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• pea or p.-jacket

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

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• Norfolk Island Pine

  n. See pine. ...

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

• 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. ...

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