Found 3 items, similar to jack.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: jack
dongkel, dongkrak, kelasi
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: jack
jack
v 1: lift with a special device;
“jack up the car so you can
change the tire” [syn:
jack up]
2: hunt with a jacklight [syn:
jacklight]
jack
n 1: a small worthless amount;
“you don't know jack” [syn:
diddly-squat,
diddlysquat,
diddly-shit,
diddlyshit,
diddly,
diddley,
squat,
shit]
2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn:
mariner,
seaman,
tar,
Jack-tar,
old salt,
seafarer,
gob,
sea dog]
3: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in
manual labor [syn:
laborer,
manual laborer,
labourer]
4: immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its
seeds are commonly roasted [syn:
jackfruit,
jak]
5: an electrical device consisting of a connector socket
designed for the insertion of a plug
6: game equipment consisting of one of several small objects
picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
7: small flag indicating a ship's nationality
8: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a
young prince [syn:
knave]
9: tool for exerting pressure or lifting
10: any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical
to warm-temperate seas
11: male donkey [syn:
jackass]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: jack
Jurel
\Ju"rel\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
(
Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is
valued as a food fish; -- called also
hardtail,
horse crevall['e]
,
jack,
buffalo jack,
skipjack,
yellow mackerel
, and sometimes, improperly,
horse mackerel. Other
species of
Caranx (as
Caranx fallax) are also sometimes
called jurel.
Pike
\Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig
a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus
woodpecker (see
Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf.
Pick, n. &
v.,
Peak,
Pique.]
1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long
wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is
now superseded by the bayonet.
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2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
shield or target. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
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5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
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6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
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8. (Zo["o]l.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish (
Esox lucius
), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a
food fish; -- called also
pickerel,
gedd,
luce, and
jack.
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Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and
yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the
wall-eye. See
Wall-eye.
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Gar pike. See under
Gar.
Pike perch (Zo["o]l.), any fresh-water fish of the genus
Stizostedion (formerly
Lucioperca). See
Wall-eye,
and
Sauger.
Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in
directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zo["o]l.), a finback whale of the North
Atlantic (
Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated
snout; -- called also
piked whale.
Sand pike (Zo["o]l.), the lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zo["o]l.), the garfish
(a) .
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