Jacket
The French jaquette, “little jack,” a translation of the
German Hanseline, a slop cut short.
Jacket.
The skin of a potato. Potatoes brought to table unpeeled are said
to be “with their jackets on.” To dust one's jacket. (See Dust.)
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