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A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.

A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.

A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden.

A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.

A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.

One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.

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.

Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.

A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

Apple brandy. [U.S.]

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende.

A device for pulling off boots.

A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.

A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.