Definition of jack

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"Jack (n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou..

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Tomcod :: Tomcod (n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c)..
Jacksaw :: Jacksaw (n.) The merganser.
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.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
Jerkin :: Jerkin (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
Ketch :: Ketch (n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
Jackdaw :: "Jackdaw (n.) See Daw, n..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack.
Jack Ketch :: "Jack Ketch () A public executioner, or hangman..
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..
Jackmen :: Jackmen (pl. ) of Jackma.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed..
Allfours :: Allfours () A game at cards, called High, Low, Jack, and the Game..
Jackeen :: "Jackeen (n.) A drunken, dissolute fellow..
Jack :: "Jack (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n..
Jack :: Jack (n.) The wall-eyed pike.
Grego :: Grego (n.) A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant..
Smokejack :: Smokejack (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
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..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself..
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