Jack Ketch - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jack ketchJack Ketch
Jack Ketch. See KETCH, JOHN....
Jack Ketch
A public executioner or hangman...
Ketch, John
Ketch, John, the public executioner in the reigns of Charles II and James II. Formerly a popular name for those who succeeded him in his office....
man jack
A single individual person as every man jack of them...
Minute jack
A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks called also jack of the clock house...
VerbarIgnis fatuus
A phosphorescent light that appears in the night over marshy ground supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances or by some inflammable gas popularly called also Will with the wisp or Will o the wisp and Jack with a lantern or Jack o lantern...
Jackpot
Same as jack pot See under jack...
Jackscrew
A jack in which a screw is used for lifting or exerting pressure See Illust of 2d Jack n 5...
Jacksmith
A smith who makes jacks See 2d Jack 4 c...
Jurel
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 crevalleacute jack buffalo jack skipjack yellow mackerel and sometimes improperly horse mackerel Other species of Caranx as Caranx fallax are also sometimes called jurel...
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