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JACKS
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : patronymic from Jack 1. As an American surname this has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages.This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, Hebrew, Indian, Scottish
God is Gracious; Son of Jack
Male
English
English patronymic surname transferred to forename use, JACKSON means "son of Jack."
Male
English
Modern spelling of English Jackson, JAXON means "son of Jack."
Boy/Male
African, American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Latin
Brotherly; Singer Jermaine Jackson; From Germany; Variant of Jarman
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Jacks.German : unexplained; perhaps a patronymic from the personal name Jeck.
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English Latin American French
Brotherly.. Singer Jermaine Jackson.
Girl/Female
Spanish American
Victorious one. Derived from Victoria. Singer LaToya Jackson.
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Scottish American English
God has been gracious; has shown favor. Based on John or Jacques.
Surname or Lastname
English and North German
English and North German : patronymic from Jack.
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Arabic
Ingenious; Clever
Girl/Female
Muslim
Mehndi, Fragrance
Boy/Male
Russian
Earth-lover.
Girl/Female
Spanish
Abbreviation of Guadalupe.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Wise; Intelligent
Male
Hebrew
(זֶרַח) Hebrew name ZERACH means "light." In the bible, this is the name of many characters, including an Edomite leader, a son of Simeon, and a son of Judah and Tamar. Zerah is the Anglicized form.
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Another Name's Lord Rama
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
An Arrow
Boy/Male
Indian
Submission to Allah
Boy/Male
Australian, Chinese, Indian, Telugu
Legend; Horse; Talented
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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 game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
n.
The merganser.
n.
A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
n.
A low servant; a mean fellow.
n.
One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
n.
A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
a.
A jackstay.
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.
See Jacksnipe.
n.
An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
n.
A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.
n.
A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
n.
A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
n.
A small jackscrew.
n.
A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.
v. t.
To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
n.
The jacksnipe.
n.
A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
n.
A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.