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† Jack-weight. World English Historical Dictionary

† Jack-weight. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. † Jack-weight Obs. [JACK sb.1 7.] A weight forming part of the mechanism in an obsolete form of a roasting-jack.

1 1659.  Lond. Chanticleers, xii. in Hazl., Dodsley, XII. 352. A woman’s anger should be like jack-weights—quickly up and quickly down.

2 a. 1784.  Johnson, Acc. Early Life. I remembered a little dark room behind the kitchen, where the jack-weight fell through a hole in the floor, into which I once slipped my leg.

3 a. 1814.  Last Act, I. iii. in New Brit. Theatre, II. 371. A short thick squat zort of a mon, fit for the devil’s jack-weight.

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