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Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow..

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..

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

Honor :: Honor (n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors..

Saury :: Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring..

Sauce-alone :: Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.

Cheap-jack :: Cheap-jack (n.) Alt. of Cheap-joh.

Jack :: Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.

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

Jack :: Jack (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper..

Slapjack :: Slapjack (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.

Jack :: Jack (n.) The jurel.

Bluefish :: Bluefish (n.) A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack..

Queller :: Queller (n.) A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller..

Tomcod :: Tomcod (n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c)..

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