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Jacket   /dʒˈækət/  /dʒˈækɪt/   Listen
noun
Jacket  n.  
1.
A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
2.
An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.
3.
(Mil.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
4.
A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; called also cork jacket.
Blue jacket. (Naut.) See under Blue.
Steam jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle.
To dust one's jacket, to give one a beating. (Colloq.)



verb
Jacket  v. t.  
1.
To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
2.
To thrash; to beat. (Low)






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"Jacket" Quotes from Famous Books



... hen-house, and lock the coal-cellar, so that I might hang the bit key on the nail behind our room window-shutter, I happened to give a keek in, and, lo and behold! the awful apparition of a man with a yellow jacket, lying sound asleep on a great lump of ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir

... eyes were bright and sparkling, and benevolent in expression; his tall figure was curiously dressed in a fashion which yet did not seem quite unfamiliar to the little girl—a sort of doublet or jacket of rich crimson velvet, with lace at the collar and cuffs, short trousers fastened in at the knees, "very like Ralph's knickerbockers," said Sylvia to herself, long pointed-toed shoes, like canoes, and on the head a little cap edged with gold, half coronet, half smoking cap, it ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth

... bright sky-blue, which was in itself an odd colour for a little boy to wear. Then the small breeches were so evidently mother-made, the tiny bits of legs surmounted with such an enormous breadth of seat, the wee Dutch-looking blue jacket, and the queer blue cap on top of the flaxen curls, gave the little creature the appearance of a Dutch doll. The first sight of her, or, perhaps, I should say "him," the first sight of him provoked a ripple of merriment; ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris

... Conde, Olympian and sublime, has been exposed by pitiless documentary evidence. La Bruyere's latest and most learned editor, M. Emile Magne, gives a terrible picture of the Prince's meanness and dirtiness; Harpagon in an ostler's jacket, he calls him, en souquenille. But to dwell on all this is to forget that the great Conde, even in his ugly old age, was haloed by the glory of having been the first soldier of the world. It was a privilege, even at the end, to be admitted ...
— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse

... protests I carefully removed his jacket and cut away the sleeve of his shirt. There was an ugly wound on his arm. "How did this happen?" ...
— "To Invade New York...." • Irwin Lewis


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