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jack
jack is a 4-letter English word with 47 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 47 senses
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- 1noun
A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
- 2noun
A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
- 3noun
An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
- 4noun
A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
- 5noun
A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
- 6noun
A device to pull off boots.
- 7noun
A sawhorse or sawbuck.
- 8noun
A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
- 9noun
A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
- 10noun
A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
- 11noun
A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
- 12noun
A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
- 13noun
A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
- 14noun
A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
- 15noun
A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
- 16noun
A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
- 17noun
In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
- 18noun
In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
- 19noun
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.
- 20noun
The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
- 21noun
The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
- 22noun
A young pike; a pickerel.
- 23noun
The jurel.
- 24noun
A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
- 25noun
The wall-eyed pike.
- 26noun
A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
- 27noun
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.
- 28noun
A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
- 29noun
The knave of a suit of playing cards.
- 30noun
A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
- 31noun
A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
- 32intransitive verb
To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
- 33transitive verb
To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
- 34noun
male donkey
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- 35noun
any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
- 36noun
tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- 37noun
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
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- 38noun
small flag indicating a ship's nationality
- 39noun
game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
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- 40noun
an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- 41noun
a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
- 42noun
immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
- 43noun
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- 44noun
a man who serves as a sailor
- 45noun
a small worthless amount
"you don't know jack"
- 46verb
hunt with a jacklight
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- 47verb
lift with a special device
"jack up the car so you can change the tire"
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