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JERKIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jerkin" is a kind of...):
jacket (a short coat)
Context examples:
“Four and three,” cried Hordle John, counting on his great fingers, “that makes seven. Ho, archer, I have thy cap! Now have at thee for thy jerkin!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is for me to fill your cups again, since you have drained them to my dear lads of the white jerkin.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By my hilt! your jerkins will be as dirty as mine ere you clap eyes on Hengistbury Head again.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The archer approached it, rolling back the sleeves of his jerkin, but with no very hopeful countenance, for indeed it was a mighty rock.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here and there among the moving throng of dark jerkins and of white surcoats were scattered dashes of scarlet and blue, the whimples or shawls of the women.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Behind him rode six others, two and two, clad in sober brown jerkins, with the long yellow staves of their bows thrusting out from behind their right shoulders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet I do not look upon myself as a worse man in an archer's jerkin than I was in a white cowl, if that be what you mean.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the waist gathered the Southampton mariners, hairy and burly men, with their jerkins thrown off, their waists braced tight, swords, mallets, and pole-axes in their hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What then?” asked Alleyne, trotting after him and gripping at his jerkin.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ill betide the day that ever I took off my yeoman's jerkin to put on the white gown!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
