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- noun Plural form of
whiskey-jack .
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Examples
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It is not a good trap, being very uncertain, as whiskey-jacks, ermine, mice, or rabbits may meddle with it, and set it off.
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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There a coyote skulked from cover, to lope away the next instant for brushwood or hollow, and snow-buntings or whiskey-jacks might have followed the marchers for pickings of waste; but east, west, north, and south was nothing but the wide, white wastes of drifted snow.
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