Meaning of Jack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
2. A man.
   capitalized
3. A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
   capitalized
4. A placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.
   informal
5. The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
6. A home run.
   slang
7. A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.
   countable, uncountable
8. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
9. A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
   US, countable
10. Ellipsis of Jack Tar, a sailor.
    abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis, informal
11. The related tree Mangifera caesia.
12. Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
13. A sailor.
    colloquial
14. Ellipsis of Jack Rum, a soldier.
    abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis, informal
15. An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
    countable, uncountable
16. A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
    slang
17. A jacqueminot rose.
18. An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
    countable, uncountable
19. A manual laborer.
    archaic
20. Ellipsis of Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
21. A lumberjack.
    Canada, US, colloquial
22. A sepoy.
    India, historical, slang
23. A device or utensil.
24. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
25. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
26. a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
27. A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
    obsolete
28. A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
29. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
30. Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
31. A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
    archaic
32. A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
    obsolete
33. A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
    obsolete
34. A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
35. A non-tool object or thing.
    historical, regional
36. A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
    historical, regional
37. The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
38. A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
39. A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
40. A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
    UK, archaic, historical, regional
41. A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
    obsolete, slang
42. A jackcrosstree.
    archaic, historical
43. A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
44. A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
    US
45. Money, cash.
    US, slang
46. A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
    Canada, US
47. Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
    euphemistic, slang
48. The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
    slang
49. A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
    slang
50. A plant or animal.
51. A pike, especially when young.
52. A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
    US
53. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
54. A jackrabbit.
    US
55. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
56. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
57. Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
    colloquial
58. Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
    colloquial
59. Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.

Equivalents

Examples

“jack of plate”

“jack of mail”

“padded jack”

“Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long.”

“threescore men in jacks or light coats of mail”

“The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.”

“After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack.”

“Call you me daughter? now I promiſe you / You haue ſhewd a tender fatherly regard, / To wiſh me wed to one halfe Lunaticke, / A mad-cap ruffian, and a ſwearing Iacke, / That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out.”

“When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you."”

“'I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two jacks reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug.”

“I hope to God his theories will not unman him in action, that he will not be musing and refining when he should be leading the Jacks […]”

“Our hero, among his other remarks, had obſerved, that in this place there was no ſuch utenſil as a jack, and that all the ſpits were turned by dogs, […]”

“Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap / To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, / Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, / At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!”

“[W]hat the devil makes you so dull, Letitia? I thought to have found you popping about as brisk as the jacks of your harpsichord.”

“In the virginal, an upright piece of wood fixed to the key-lever and fitted with a quill which plucked the string as the jack rose when the key was pressed down. Here used as "key."”

“She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.”

“telephone jack”

“Dead VVine that ſtinks of the Borrachio, ſup / From a fovvl Jack, or greaſie Maple Cup?”

“He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.”

“like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it”

“To a pound of sugar put a jack of water.”

“a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack”

“First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack (or jack-shit) […].”

“Angels come from everywhere with lots of jack, and when you lose it, there's no attack. Where could you get money that you don't give back? Let's go on with the show”

“[A] quart of raisin jack was divided between us with the result that tha day proper (after the night before) was spent very quietly, watered and Bromo-Seltzered, with amusing anecdotes occasionally sprouting from towelled head to towelled head.”

“You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!”

“Sergeant Albrecht: Hey, c'mon, read the file! Shelly Webster, held on for 30 hours in intensive care and, her body finally just gave up. I saw it man, I couldn't do jack for her.”

“She didn't know what he was doing on the Darvish farm, or how long he'd been there, or how long he planned to stay. She didn't even know if it was his plane. In other words, jack, Mira thought, in a spike of furious resentment against herself.”

“Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]"”

“Usually a jack that makes male flowers has only one main leaf (right), while female plants have two. […] The specific taxonomy of Jack-in-the Pulpit, a member of the Arum Family (Araceae), is rather up in the air. Some botanists believe all jacks are just one species, Arisaema triphyllum, while others claim there are as many as three: A. triphyllum, A. atrorubens, and A. stewardsonii.”

“In fact, most male Jacks are under 14 inches tall. Most Jacks over 14 inches tend to be Jills.”

“Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend "Jack," known better to botanists as the spadix.”

“On every kid’s list of favourite plants is our quirky Jack-in-the-pulpit with its green, red or purple spadices (the Jacks) and hooded green-, red- or almost black-striped spathes (the pulpits).”

“A mock living burial of the principal performer, who is placed in a pit, which is covered with planks, on the top of which a sacrifice is performed, with a fire kindled with jack wood (Artocarpus integrifolia) and a plant called erinna.”

“The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?”

“Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.”

“3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and...”

“Since every Jack became a gentleman there's many a gentle person made a Jack.”

“Heere comes leane Iacke, heere comes bare-bone. How now my ſweet Creature of Bombaſt, how long is't agoe, Iacke, ſince thou ſaw'ſt thine owne Knee?”

“JACK. Well, really, Gwendolen, I must say that I think that there are lots of other much nicer names. I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. GWENDOLEN. Jack?...No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations...I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John!”

“Chief Judge Jack Tuter, who oversees the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale, released a statement over the weekend berating Ehrlich for her conduct.”

“Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack.”

“Got a boy back home in Michigan / And it tastes like Jack when I'm kissing him / So I told him that I never really liked his friends / Now he's gone and he's calling me a bitch again”

“Well, if you ever plan to motor west / Jack, take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66”

“When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale—pompously. Jack ashore—with a difference—in externals only.”

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