Strait-jacket

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• Strait

  ·adj A variant of Straight. II. Strait ·superl Narrow; not broad. III. Strait ·adv Strictly; rigor...

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• strait

  , or straight. A passage connecting one part of a sea with another; as, the Straits of Gibraltar, ...

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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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• Strait-handed

  ·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. ...

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• Strait-laced

  ·adj Bound with stays. II. Strait-laced ·adj Restricted; stiff; constrained. III. Strait-laced ·ad...

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• Strait-waistcoat

  ·noun ·same·as Strait-jacket. ...

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• strait-laced

  Precise, over nice, puritanical. ...

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• strait waistcoat

  A tight waistcoat, with long sleeves coming over the hand, having strings for binding them behind th...

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• strait gulf

  An arm of the sea running into the land through a narrow entrance channel, as the Gulf of Venice. Th...

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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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• Pea-jacket

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

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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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• 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

  Rope's-ending the wearer. ...

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