Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
jockteleg .
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Examples
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Do the folk think I have a spare windpipe in my pocket, after John Highlandman has slit this one with his jocteleg?
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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The clasp-knife was commonly known in the North as a jocteleg.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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The clasp-knife was commonly known in the North as a jocteleg.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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