Jerkin

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  • noun. A close-fitting, hip-length, collarless jacket having no sleeves but often extended shoulders, belted and worn over a doublet by men especially in the 1500s.
  • noun. A short, close-fitting, often sleeveless coat or jacket, usually of leather.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A young salmon: same as ginkin.
  • noun. A short close-fitting coat or jacket, worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  • noun. The male of the gerfalcon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A male gyrfalcon.
  • noun. A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
  • noun. A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    bodice  doublet  
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    jacket  
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