Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
jack , 11 . - noun Same as
Jack-o'-lantern , 2.
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Examples
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On his neck was set a round, yellow pumpkin, with a face carved on it such as a boy often carves on a jack-lantern.
Love Letters 2010
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On his neck was set a round, yellow pumpkin, with a face carved on it such as a boy often carves on a jack-lantern.
The Road to Oz 1887
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On his neck was set a round, yellow pumpkin, with a face carved on it such as a boy often carves on a jack-lantern.
The Road to Oz 1887
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Honest travelling have been so rascally abused since I was a boy in pinners, by tribes of nobodies tearing from one end of the country to t'other, to see the sun go down in salt water, or the moon play jack-lantern behind some rotten tower or other, that, upon my song, when life and death's in the wind there's no telling the difference! '
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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Honest travelling have been so rascally abused since I was a boy in pinners, by tribes of nobodies tearing from one end of the country to t’other, to see the sun go down in salt water, or the moon play jack-lantern behind some rotten tower or other, that, upon my song, when life and death’s in the wind there’s no telling the difference!’
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