Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The use of the jack in hunting for game by night; hunting by means of a jack. See
jack , n., 11 .
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Examples
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He said to me later, and emphatically, “I must kill a deer;” and one night we went out “jack-hunting” to enable him to realize that ambition.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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He said to me later, and emphatically, "I must kill a deer;" and one night we went out "jack-hunting" to enable him to realize that ambition.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864
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