jersey

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A soft, plain-knitted fabric used for clothing.
• noun A shirt worn by an athlete, often displaying the name of the player, team, or sponsor.
• noun A close-fitting knitted pullover shirt, jacket, or sweater.
• noun Any of a breed of fawn-colored dairy cattle developed on the island of Jersey and producing milk that is rich in butterfat.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun [capitalized] A celebrated breed of dairy cattle which originated in the island of Jersey, in the English channel, and is noted for the yield of milk.
• noun Fine woolen yarn; fine or select wool, separated from the inferior quality by combing.
• noun A close-fitting upper garment, extending to the hips, made of elastic woolen or silk material, and worn with some variation of form by both men and women.
• Made of fine woolen yarn or pure wool.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.
• noun A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).
• noun One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
• noun A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.
• noun A type of fabric knit

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
• noun a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric
• noun the largest of the Channel Islands
• noun a close-fitting pullover shirt
• noun a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey