jerkin
IPA: dʒˈɝkɪn
noun
- (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.
- Alternative form of gyrkin [(obsolete) A male gyrfalcon.]
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Examples of "jerkin" in Sentences
- Hoping to make a hit jerkin song to come soon.
- The main barn has a jerkin roof on the end gable.
- WOW, central america has nooo clue what "jerkin" is.
- The shoe has been used heavily in the Jerkin' movement.
- You were right about the grammar of the article Jerkin'.
- The house has a jerkin head gable roof and two brick chimneys.
- Its ridges end in jerkin heads with a metallic wave shaped finial.
- I can tell you that Jerkin is a dance movement just like krumping.
- Lyra pulled the dagger from her jerkin and plunged it into his stomach.
- The one story building has a full basement and a jerkin head gable roof.
- I have noticed there is no article for a Jerkinhead roof aka Jerkin roof.
- The roof is multiple gabled and features the distinctive Jerkin style roof.
- He looks very fine in a doublet of burgundy velvet with a jerkin over it of black silk and cloth of silver.
- Kro-lu, and there I fashion my bow and my arrows and my shield; there I hunt the red deer for the leathern jerkin which is the badge of my new estate.
- The shade was too deep to make out his face, but Torak saw that like him, he wore a sleeveless buckskin jerkin and knee-length leggings, with light rawhide boots.
- The coat itself is what is called a jerkin; and as the buttons behind are half-way up his back, it is a matter of course that the tail, which runs rapidly to a point, is ludicrously scanty.
- So I'm just going to let the younguns proceed with the dance craze "jerkin '" and assume that the studio suits who agreed to make a movie based on this trend somehow actually know what they're talking about.
- I can't stand it when hard lefties like you, Cockburn, Perrin et al start jerkin 'it to the supposed manliness of right wing leaders, even though they support things that disgust you, they GET THINGS DONE, and that should be admired?
- Over the jerkin was a leather harness of simple design'two straps across his shoul - ders, coming to the waist and attached to a broad belt whereupon hung his weapons-a sword, a dirk, long and sharp, and a holster containing his big, round-butted air-pistol.