n. (Zool.) The merganser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe. (b) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (pl.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck. Also called jacks. See jack{ 12 }, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. A modern variation, called pick-up-sticks (U.S. 1940+), is played with thin wooden sticks of different colors, each color having different values for scoring; the sticks are dislodged from the pile with the hand or with one of the sticks. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The game played with jackstraws{ 2 }, which resembles pick-up-sticks. [ PJC ]