Index of English words, starting with "ja"

(1) - Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
(2) - Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.

(1) - Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.
(2) - Jackstraw (n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.

(1) - Jacob (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.