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单词 jack weight
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jack weightn.

Brit. /ˈdʒak ˌweɪt/, U.S. /ˈdʒæk ˌweɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Jack n.2, weight n.1
Etymology: < Jack n.2 (compare Jack n.2 5) + weight n.1
Now historical and rare.
In a roasting jack: a weight suspended from a chain or cord, used to power and regulate the motion of the spit by its descent.
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1642 Inventory 28 Oct. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 97 A iack, a p[air] of spitt-racks, 3 spitts, a Jack weight, & chaine.
1659 London Chanticleers xii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 352 A woman's anger should be like jack-weights—quickly up and quickly down.
1729 Daily Jrnl. 20 Feb. Finding the Doors open, they went in, and took a Leaden Jack Weight out of a Hole in the Kitchen.
a1784 S. Johnson Acct. Early Life (1805) 16 I remembered a little dark room behind the kitchen, where the jack-weight fell through a hole in the floor, into which I once slipped my leg.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 180 She actually had an old jack-weight brought once a year before the kitchen fire.
1884 Bury & Norwich Post 5 Feb. They may be supplied with the following articles of their manufacture on the lowest terms..stove backs and cheeks, sash, clock, and jack weights, kitchen backs, swedge anvils, oven doors, and frames, &c. &c.
2015 A. Buxton Domest. Culture Early Mod. Eng. 128 The inventories listed 30 jacks, 3 jacks and chains and 8 jack weights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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