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 |
Rafter (n.) A raftsman. |
Rafter (n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post. |
Rafter (v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber. |
Rafter (v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
bumper jack | a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper |
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 |
rafter balk baulk | one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof |
telephone jack phone jack | a jack for plugging in a telephone |
Union Jack Union flag | national flag of the United Kingdom |
yellow jack | yellow flag hoist on a ship in quarantine |
jackfruit jak jack | immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit, it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted |
Jack Frost | a personification of frost or winter weather |
handyman jack of all trades odd-job man | a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks |
huckster cheap-jack | a seller of shoddy goods |
Jack of all trades | a person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably well |
laborer manual laborer labourer jack | someone who works with their hands, someone engaged in manual labor |
man jack | a single individual, every man jack |
mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer gob sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
raftsman raftman rafter | someone who travels by raft |
Benny Jack Benny Benjamin Kubelsky | United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (-) |
Dempsey Jack Dempsey William Harrison Dempsey Manassa Mauler | United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (-) |
Hobbs Sir Jack Hobbs John Berry Hobbs | notable English cricketer (-) |
Jack the Ripper | an unidentified English murderer in the th century |
Kennedy Jack Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy JFK President Kennedy President John F. Kennedy | th President of the United States, established the Peace Corps, assassinated in Dallas (-) |
Kerouac Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac | United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (-) |
Lemmon Jack Lemmon John Uhler | United States film actor (-) |
London Jack London John Griffith Chaney | United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (-) |
Nicklaus Jack Nicklaus Jack William Nicklaus | United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in ) |
Pershing John Joseph Pershing Black Jack Pershing | United States general who commanded the American forces in Europe during World War I (-) |
Robinson Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson | United States baseball player, first Black to play in the major leagues (-) |
friar's lantern ignis fatuus jack-o'-lantern will-o'-the-wisp | a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground |
jack pine Pinus banksiana | slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America, with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark |
cuckoopint lords-and-ladies jack-in-the-pulpit Arum maculatum | common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix, emerges in early spring, source of a starch called arum |