Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket..

Jacket :: "Jacket (v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket..

Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.

Jacketed :: "Jacketed (a.) Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket..

Jacketing :: "Jacketing (n.) The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing..

Jackknife :: "Jackknife (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife..

Jackman :: "Jackman (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n..

Jackman :: Jackman (n.) A cream cheese.

Jackmen :: Jackmen (pl. ) of Jackma.

Jackpudding :: Jackpudding (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

Jacksaw :: Jacksaw (n.) The merganser.

Jackscrew :: "Jackscrew (n.) A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5..

Jackslave :: Jackslave (n.) A low servant; a mean fellow.

Jacksmith :: "Jacksmith (n.) A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c..

Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..

Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe..

Jackstay :: "Jackstay (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened..

Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.

Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence..

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Jackwood :: "Jackwood (n.) Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork..

Minute-jack :: Minute-jack (n.) A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

Minute-jack :: Minute-jack (n.) A timeserver; an inconstant person.

Natterjack :: Natterjack (n.) A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back..

Pea-jacket :: Pea-jacket (n.) A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An upstart.

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..

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