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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



... is—and my jacket in it. [He opens the box and takes out his jacket, which he lays aside on the table] Well, well, you've got them acquitted, my dear ...
— Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe - Three Plays By Brieux • Eugene Brieux

... his special attachments, there can be no reasonable doubt about his having considered himself a member of the regiment, clothed with certain powers and responsibilities. At the end of his term he was fitted with a uniform—trousers, jacket, and fez, and, thus dressed, he marched up Broadway, immediately behind the band. He was soon after mustered out of the service, and received an honorable discharge, not signed with written characters, but attested by the good-will of every ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... that when he first went to Harrow in September, 1823, at the age of twelve, he rode all the way from London, followed by a servant carrying his portmanteau on a second horse. My father's dress sounds curious to modern ears. Below a jacket and one of the big flapping collars of the period, he wore a waistcoat of crimson cut-velvet with gold buttons, a pair of skin-tight pantaloons of green tartan with Hessian boots to the knee, further adorned with large brass spurs with brass chains. A schoolboy of twelve would excite some comment ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton

... kitchen door, smiled blandly, said "'Ello!" and retired. Gordon and Carew unsaddled the horses, put the hobbles on, and carried all the gear into the house. By this time the Chinee had donned a dirty calico jacket, and began in silence to put some knives, forks, ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... were better dressed. His roughing-it costume, which up to that time had seemed so comfortable, now appeared uncouth and out of place. He felt as if he had suddenly found himself in a London drawing-room with a shooting-jacket on. But this sensation was quickly effaced by the look which the beauty gave him over her shoulder. Trenton, in all his experience, had never encountered such a glance of indignant scorn. It was a look of resentment and contempt, with just a dash of ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr


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