jack
Webster Dictionary
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
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jack
(ʒæk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure: jack rafter; jack truss.
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jack
Webster Dictionary
a machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack
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jack
Webster Dictionary
to move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5
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jack
Webster Dictionary
a popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat
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jackscrew
Webster Dictionary
a jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5
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coordinate
(ˈɒp tə tɪv)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
of the same grammatical rank in a construction, as Jack and Jill in the phrase Jack and Jill, or got up and shook hands in the sentence
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jack
Webster Dictionary
to hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n
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jackman
Webster Dictionary
one wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n
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union jack
(ˈyun yəˌnaɪz)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a jack consisting of the union of a national flag or ensign, as the U.S. jack, formed from the blue field and white stars of the U.S. national flag.
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ignis fatuus
Webster Dictionary
a phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern
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jack-o'-lantern
Webster Dictionary
see Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack
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sauce-alone
Webster Dictionary
jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack
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jurel
Webster Dictionary
a yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel
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tinker
(ˈtɪŋ kər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a jack-of-all-trades.
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knave
(ɪv)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in cards) the jack.
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jackscrew
(jackscrew, screw jack)
Princeton's WordNet
screw-operated jack
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phone jack
(telephone jack, phone jack)
Princeton's WordNet
a jack for plugging in a telephone
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telephone jack
(telephone jack, phone jack)
Princeton's WordNet
a jack for plugging in a telephone
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screw jack
(jackscrew, screw jack)
Princeton's WordNet
screw-operated jack
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spanish mackerel
(ˈspæn ɪʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in California) the jack mackerel.
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jack
(ʒæk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usu. fol. by up):
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bumper jack
(bumper jack)
Princeton's WordNet
a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper
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canavanine
(canavanine)
Princeton's WordNet
an amino acid found in the jack bean
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crevalle
(əˈvæl i, -ˈvæl ə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of several marine fishes of the jack family, Carangidae.
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face card
(ɪs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the king, queen, or jack of playing cards.
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family araceae
(Araceae, family Araceae, arum family)
Princeton's WordNet
anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron
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royal flush
(royal flush)
Princeton's WordNet
a poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 all in the same suit
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arum family
(Araceae, family Araceae, arum family)
Princeton's WordNet
anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron
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araceae
(Araceae, family Araceae, arum family)
Princeton's WordNet
anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron
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