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A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.

''A man.''

(hypothetical man or typical man) (capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.

(US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.

(sailor) (colloquial) A sailor.

(policeman; detective; military policeman) (slang) A policeman or detective; {{i|Australia}} a military policeman.

(manual laborer) (rare) A manual laborer.

(lumberjack) (colloquial) A lumberjack.

(sepoy) (slang) A sepoy.

''A device or utensil.''

(device for turning a spit) A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.

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.

(glassblowing) a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).

(obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.

A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.

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.

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.

(rare) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

(obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.

(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.

(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; {{i|more generally}} a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.

''A non-tool object or thing.''

(regional) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.

(Q510474)(colloquial) 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.

(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.

(flag) (nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.

(historical) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.

(slang) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.

(historical) A jackcrosstree.1841, {{w|Richard Henry Dana Jr.}}, ''The Seaman's Friend''

(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.

(US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.

(US) Money, cash.

(North America) A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.

(jack shit) (euphemistic) Nothing, not anything, jack shit.

(slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.

(Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.

''A plant or animal.''

A pike, especially when young.

(US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.

Any of the marine fish in the family (family).

(US) A jackrabbit.

A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, (species).

(species), related to the mango tree.

(Arum family plants)(colloquial) Plant in the genus (genus), also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.

(colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).

(Buckwheat family plants) (apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus (genus), also considered synonymous to (genus), if not then containing two species {{vern|lesser jack}} and {{vern|little jack}} for (species) syn. (species), Australian English {{vern|three-corner jack}} and {{vern|prickly jack}} for (species) syn. (species).

To physically raise using a jack. +

To raise or increase.

To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.

{{anchor|to steal}}(colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).

To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.

(vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.

(slang) To fight.

(informal) To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).

(AU) Tired, disillusioned; fed up ((with)).

The edible fruit of the Asian tree ((species)); also the tree itself.

The related tree (species). +

(baseball) A home run.

(baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.