black-jacks

Life in Stalag I found to be vastly different from the old Marburg days… no guards with black-jacks here, in fact all Germans seemed to be outside the wire and the actual running of the camp was done by ourselves.

Thomas Hawksworth 2010

Overturned pitchers, and black-jacks, and pewter stoups, and flagons still cumbered the large oaken table; glasses, those more perishable implements of conviviality, many of which had been voluntarily sacrificed by the guests in their enthusiastic pledges to favourite toasts, strewed the stone floor with their fragments.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Even arriving back after the walk covered in black-jacks couldn't ruin the moment.

i dreamed of africa carl 2005

Some had brought along large bolo knives, others had homemade black-jacks—canvas sacks containing lead balls—for hand-to-hand fighting.

The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

Some had brought along large bolo knives, others had homemade black-jacks—canvas sacks containing lead balls—for hand-to-hand fighting.

The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

Some had brought along large bolo knives, others had homemade black-jacks—canvas sacks containing lead balls—for hand-to-hand fighting.

The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

But the fox has turned and plunged into a brake which no horse can go through, and we draw up and listen to decide where we can head him off with the greatest certainty; then turn in different directions and spur through the young black-jacks.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

It was known as the Bishop's church, and sat on the side of the mountain, half way up among the black-jacks, exposed to the blistering suns of summer and the winds of winter.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

They entered the house and found there a large company of wild-looking men engaged in drinking from heavy black-jacks, and singing loud choruses.

Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Various

He black-jacks now not because he really wants to, but because he cannot help himself.

The Prince and Betty 1928