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 type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarlessjacket, with or without sleeves.
noun.
A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
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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."