Jacket vs Jerkin - What's the difference?
jacket | jerkin |
A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat ; coat (US)
A removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (eg a book, hot water tank.)
(slang) A police record.
* 1995 , , 00:26:00:
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(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
* 1897 , Alexander James Wallis-Tayler,
(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.
As nouns the difference between jacket and jerkin
is that jacket is a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length while jerkin is a type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.As a verb jacket
is to enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.jacket
English
(wikipedia jacket)Noun
(en noun)- "We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. With my jacket , I can't go back to jail."
- "Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years."
Derived terms
* bedjacket * bookjacket * donkey jacket * dust jacket * flak jacket * jacket potato * leatherjacket * life jacket * Nehru jacket * smoking jacketDescendants
* Irish: * Japanese: * Korean: * Mandarin: * Scottish Gaelic: (l) * Welsh: (l)Verb
(en verb)Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads
- ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.