Apple-jack
(n.) Apple brandy. |
Black-jack
(n.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende |
Black-jack
(n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. |
Black-jack
(n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc. |
Black-jack
(n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak. |
Black-jack
(n.) The ensign of a pirate. |
Cheap-jack
(n.) Alt. of Cheap-john |
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. |
Jack
(n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. |
Jack
(n.) An impertinent or silly fellow |
Jack
(n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor |
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
(n.) A device to pull off boots. |
Jack
(n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck. |
Jack
(n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit |
Jack
(n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. |
Jack
(n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles. |
Jack
(n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads |
Jack
(n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. |
Jack
(n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal. |
Jack
(n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. |
Jack
(n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. |
Jack
(n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. |
Jack
(n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill |
Jack
(n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night |
Jack
(n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack. |
Jack
(n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls. |
Jack
(n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass. |
Jack
(n.) A young pike |
Jack
(n.) The jurel. |
Jack
(n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus) |
Jack
(n.) The wall-eyed pike. |
Jack
(n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint |
Jack
(n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap |
Jack
(n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds |
Jack
(n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards. |
Jack
(n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather. |
Jack
(n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather |
Jack
(v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n. |
Jack
(v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5. |
Jack-a-dandy
(n.) A little dandy |
Jack-a-lent
(n.) A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent |
Jack Ketch
() A public executioner, or hangman. |
Jack-o'-lantern
(n.) See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. |
Minute-jack
(n.) A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks |
Minute-jack
(n.) A timeserver |
Sea wall
() A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Supple-jack
(n.) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. |
Supple-jack
(n.) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica) |
Telephone
(n.) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance. |
all fours
high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
beggar-my-neighbor
beggar-my-neighbour
strip-Jack-naked | a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
blue wall of silence
blue wall
wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
| telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
Canada jay
grey jay
gray jay
camp robber
whisker jack
Perisoreus canadensis | a jay of northern North America with blackapped head and no crest, noted for boldness in thievery |
wall creeper
tichodrome
Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
| jack jackass | male donkey |
coho
cohoe
coho salmon
blue jack
silver salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes |
walleye
walleyed pike
jack salmon
dory Stizostedion vitreum | pike-like freshwater perches |
| jack | any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas |
crevalle jack
jack crevalle
Caranx hippos | fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico |
yellow jack
Caranx bartholomaei | fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico |
horse mackerel jack mackerel
Spanish mackerel saurel Trachurus symmetricus | a California food fish |
| Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
| bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket
wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
| bumper jack | a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper |
| cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
cellular telephone
cellular phone
cellphone
cell mobile phone | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own shortange transmitter
receiver |
central
telephone exchange
exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
| dial telephone dial | a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called |
dial telephone
dial phone | a telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
extension telephone extension
extension phone | an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line |
gable
gable end
gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
handset
French telephone | telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle |
hanging
wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
| jack | tool for exerting pressure or lifting |
| jack knave | one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince |
| jack | small flag indicating a ship's nationality |
| jack jackstones | game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks |
| jack | an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug |
| jack | a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling |
| jack-in-the-box | plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened |
| jack-o'-lantern | lantern carved from a pumpkin |
| jack plane | a carpenter's plane for rough finishing |
jackscrew
screw jack | screw-operated jack |
Jacob's ladder
jack ladder
pilot ladder | (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps |
| jumping jack | plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
proscenium
proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
radiotelephone
radiophone
wireless telephone | a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables |
rampart
bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
| retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
telephone
phone
telephone set | electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds, I talked to him on the telephone |
| telephone bell | electric bell that rings to signal a call |
telephone booth
phone booth
call box
telephone box
telephone kiosk | booth for using a telephone |