Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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 1500s.
- noun A short, close-fitting, often sleeveless coat or jacket, usually of leather.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young salmon: same as
ginkin . - noun A short close-fitting coat or jacket, worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- noun The male of the gerfalcon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A male gyrfalcon.
- noun A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A type of men's
garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fittingcollarless jacket , with or withoutsleeves . - noun A
sleeveless jacket, usuallyleather ; a longwaistcoat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984
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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 William Carleton 1831
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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.
The People That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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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.
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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WOW, central america has nooo clue what "jerkin" is.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 E. Eduardo Castillo 2009
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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.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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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?
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Lyra pulled the dagger from her jerkin and plunged it into his stomach.
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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.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
bilby commented on the word jerkin
Fish or fashion or falcon.
November 16, 2021