Gherkin vs Jerkin - What's the difference?
gherkin | jerkin |
(historical) A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 32:
*:A tall and very good-looking kid in a jerkin came out of the store and rode the coupé off around the corner and came back walking, his glistening black hair plastered with rain.