jack
/ˈd͡ʒæk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man.
Example Sentences
- "jack of plate"
- "jack of mail"
- "padded jack"
- "Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long."
- "threescore men in jacks or light coats of mail"
- "The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
jacks (plural)
jacks (present, singular)
jacking (participle, present)
jacked (participle, past)
jacked (past)
more jack (comparative)
most jack (superlative)
jak (alternative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
jack of plate
African jack
back to back jack
ballin' the jack
bicolor jack
blackfin jack
black jack
blue jack