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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.
n.
A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.
v. t.
To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
n.
One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.
n.
A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
v. t.
To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
n.
One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
a.
Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.
n.
A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
v. i.
To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
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.
n.
The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.
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One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated.
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Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
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A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.
n.
A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
n.
A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
pl.
of Jackman
n.
See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.
n.
A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
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