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jacks
Part of speech: NounPlu. wooden wedges used in eoal- mining.
Usage examples "jacks":- The most curious, and at the same time the most impudent, among the latter were the whisky- jacks. - "Hudson Bay", R.M. Ballantyne.
- Now during the last half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth there lived in Italy a group of men who were in the highest possible degree Jacks of all Trades, or could have been so if they had chosen. - "The Strange Story Book", Mrs. Andrew Lang.
- Even if Hunt Rennie did not appear bodily in the Four Jacks tonight, Drew could pick up information about his father merely by keeping open ears. - "Rebel Spurs", Andre Norton.