JERKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jerkin mean? 

• JERKIN (noun)
  The noun JERKIN has 1 sense:

1. a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times

  Familiarity information: JERKIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERKIN (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 

He hath them all—gown, jerkin, hosen and all.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I might easily have stifled it with my coat, which I unfortunately left behind me for haste, and came away only in my leathern jerkin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Here is one!” said the leader, springing down from his reeking horse, and seizing the white rogue by the edge of his jerkin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“A rouse! A rouse!” cried one rough looking fellow in a tattered jerkin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the north-east coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea, in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had thrown off his green jerkin, and his chest was covered only by a pink silk jupon, or undershirt, cut low in the neck and sleeveless.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Canst change thy robe for a jerkin once more at the Abbey, unless perchance you have a friend near at hand.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, by our Lady! here is for yonder one in the red jerkin!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, in the morning we found that he had made a rope from strips of his leathern jerkin, and had hung himself to the bar of the window.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)