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Black Jack, ˈblack-jack
1. A large leather jug for beer, etc. coated externally with tar.
1591Nashe Prognost. 24 Cuppes, cannes, pots, glasses, and black iacks. 1619Pasquil's Palin. (1877) 157 The great blacke Iack well fild with Sack. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 367 Hee runs to the black jack, fills his flagon, spreds the table, and servs up dinner. 1672Davenant Unfort. Lovers (1673) 121 He looks as if he had a black Jack under His Cloak. 1822Scott Nigel xxii, Ale which he brought in a large leathern tankard or black-jack. 1854C. M. Yonge Heartsease I. ii. 31 She was enchanted with St. Cross..in raptures at the black jacks, dole of bread and beer. 1921O. Baker Black Jacks & Leather Bottells iii. 67 The black jack was..a kind of leathern pitcher or jug, always lined with pitch or metal. 1965Harper's Bazaar 49 Black Jack jugs in two sizes, {pstlg}4 7s. 6d. and 6 gns. (waterproof leather).
2. A miner's name for zinc sulphide or blende.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. N iij b, It is most commonly found in hard Veins and Pipes, some do call it Black-Jack. 1762Gentl. Mag. 400 Blende, called by the miners black-jack or mock ore. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 373 Zinc is procured..from blende or black-jack.
3. U.S. A shrubby kind of oak (Quercus nigra).
1765J. Bartram Diary 31 July in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) XXXIII. 17/1 Y⊇ oaks black which is reconed y⊇ best fire wood thay have thay call them black Jacks seldom grow above A foot diameter. 1782Jefferson Notes Virginia (1787) 62 Black jack oak. Quercus aquatica. 1856Olmsted Slave States 383 The gray beech, and the shrubby black-jack oak. 1863Times 16 June The intrenchments and abbatis in the black jack thicket. 1879Tourgee Fool's Err. xv. 75 The wide fire-place, in which the dry hickory and black-jack was blazing brightly.
†4. Sc. A black leather jerkin: see jack. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 99 Some garris wyth a ged staf to jag throw blak jakkis. 1820Scott Monast. x, With their glittering steel caps, and their black-jacks.
5. A popular name of the mustard beetle.
1886Standard 24 May 2/1 The mustard beetle (Phædon betulæ), commonly known as the Black Jack.
6. The black caterpillar of the turnip saw-fly, Athalia centifolia or A. spinarum.
1840[see nigger n. 2].
7. The South African plant Bidens pilosa; also its hooked seed.
1877M. A. Barker Year's Housekeeping S. Africa vii. 130 An innocent-looking plant..bearing a most aggravating tuft of little black spires, which lose no opportunity of sticking to one's petticoats in myriads. They are familiarly known as ‘black jacks’. 1932Discovery Jan. 24/2 The seeds of the horrible weed ‘Black Jack’ are eaten by a serin⁓finch.
8. = black flag as the ensign of a pirate. Cf. jack n.3
1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
9. A weapon consisting of a weighted head and short pliable shaft, used as a bludgeon. Hence as v., to strike with a blackjack. U.S.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1895Denver Times 5 Mar. 8/5 During the scuffle Miss Alderfer, Knapp's niece, saw the ‘black jack’ up his sleeve,..and as a result, swore out the concealed weapons charge. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 10 Mar. 1 This position..was not such as the body would have taken had Newman been struck with a blackjack or other weapon. 1905Ibid. 2 Sept., ‘I got a partner there [sc. in the penitentiary],’ Red said,..‘blackjacked a man.’ 1934J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice iv. 31 She was to..clip him from behind with a blackjack I had made for her out of a sugar bag with ball bearings wadded down in the end. 1946‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fiends (1947) xv. 106 Perhaps you gave a ride to a hitchhiker who blackjacked you.
10. = vingt-et-un.
1910R. W. Service Trail of '98 (1911) iv. iv. 316 A tall fair-moustached man whom I recognized as a black-jack booster. 1931Kansas City Star 28 Dec. 16 The governor knows his politics and is too poor a black jack player to mingle with gobs, anyway. 1937J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men 117 I seen guys nearly crazy with loneliness for land, but ever' time a whore-house or a blackjack game took what it takes. 1954Encounter Oct. 8/1 Roulette and dice and blackjack were available. 1967Guardian 25 Feb. 8/1 The proprietors must not be allowed..unfair advantage of their customers by keeping the bank to themselves in..roulette, chemin de fer and blackjack. |