jack meaning in Urdu & English

(1) - Jack (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
(2) - Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
(3) - Jack (n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
(4) - Jack (n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
(5) - Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
(6) - Jack (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
(7) - Jack (n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
(8) - Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
(9) - Jack (n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
(10) - Jack (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
(11) - Jack (n.) A device to pull off boots.
(12) - Jack (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
(13) - Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
(14) - Jack (n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
(15) - Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
(16) - Jack (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
(17) - Jack (n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
(18) - Jack (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
(19) - Jack (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
(20) - Jack (n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
(21) - Jack (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
(22) - Jack (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
(23) - Jack (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
(24) - Jack (n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
(25) - Jack (n.) The wall-eyed pike.
(26) - Jack (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
(27) - Jack (n.) The jurel.
(28) - Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
(29) - Jack (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
(30) - Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
(31) - Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
(32) - Jack (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
(33) - Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.

Jack meaning in Urdu & English