Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A close-fitting, hip-length, collarless jacket having no sleeves but often extended shoulders, belted and worn over a doublet by men especially in the 16th century.
- n. A short, close-fitting, often sleeveless coat or jacket, usually of leather.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A short close-fitting coat or jacket, worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The term is used loosely to include on the one hand the doublet, and on the other the buff-coat, at least in some of its forms; it was even used for a surcoat, or coat worn over armor.
- n. A young salmon: same as ginkin.
- n. The male of the gerfalcon.
Wiktionary
- n. historical A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
- n. A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
- n. (Zoöl.) A male gyrfalcon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The shade was too deep to make out his face, but Torak saw that like him, he wore a sleeveless buckskin jerkin and knee-length leggings, with light rawhide boots.”
“Over the jerkin was a leather harness of simple design'two straps across his shoul - ders, coming to the waist and attached to a broad belt whereupon hung his weapons-a sword, a dirk, long and sharp, and a holster containing his big, round-butted air-pistol.”
“The coat itself is what is called a jerkin; and as the buttons behind are half-way up his back, it is a matter of course that the tail, which runs rapidly to a point, is ludicrously scanty.”
Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
“Kro-lu, and there I fashion my bow and my arrows and my shield; there I hunt the red deer for the leathern jerkin which is the badge of my new estate.”
“So I'm just going to let the younguns proceed with the dance craze "jerkin '" and assume that the studio suits who agreed to make a movie based on this trend somehow actually know what they're talking about.”
“WOW, central america has nooo clue what "jerkin" is.”
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“He looks very fine in a doublet of burgundy velvet with a jerkin over it of black silk and cloth of silver.”
Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
“I can't stand it when hard lefties like you, Cockburn, Perrin et al start jerkin 'it to the supposed manliness of right wing leaders, even though they support things that disgust you, they GET THINGS DONE, and that should be admired?”
“Lyra pulled the dagger from her jerkin and plunged it into his stomach.”
“As long as you wear the jerkin, you are safe from ball, cut and thrust.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jerkin’.
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 70 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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wordhoard
dilatory, ataraxia, hermit, cabana, hut, dome, vestigial, porcine, crapulous, usufruct, curmudgeon, bombastic and 229 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
grizzly, coho, roe, koyukon, chinook, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit and 221 more...
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noble mythical words
halcyon, yore, chevalier, geas, dour, clarion, codex, selkie, mythic, rime, hoarfrost, eldritch and 112 more...
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Henderson the Rain King
Words taken from Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
yellowback, unkillable, swack, hoarfrost, decapotable, brownian, mackinaw, taxwise, oratorio, picaresque, masonite, catalpa and 109 more...
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the Island of the Day Before
phoebus, promontory, succor, indite, sickle, cerulean, tenebrous, specter, bastion, clemency, miasma, nocturlabe and 112 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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Sartor Resartus / Irving's The Sketch...
anglo-dandiacal, egregious, somnambulism, clothes, adventitous, atrabiliar, mephitic, psychical, circumambient, tumuli, encomiums, wesand and 27 more...
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Gypsy
tambura, tambourine, lute, fiddle, mandolin, pan's pipes, amulet, bloomers, bodice, chemise, diklo, sash and 13 more...
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