These are the meanings of the letters JACKBOX when you unscramble them.
- Back (a.)
Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
- Back (a.)
Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
- Back (a.)
Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
- Back (adv.)
(Of time) In times past; ago.
- Back (adv.)
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
- Back (adv.)
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
- Back (adv.)
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
- Back (adv.)
In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
- Back (adv.)
In return, repayment, or requital.
- Back (adv.)
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
- Back (adv.)
In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
- Back (adv.)
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
- Back (adv.)
To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
- Back (n.)
A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
- Back (n.)
A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
- Back (n.)
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- Back (n.)
A support or resource in reserve.
- Back (n.)
An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
- Back (n.)
In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
- Back (n.)
The keel and keelson of a ship.
- Back (n.)
The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
- Back (n.)
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
- Back (n.)
The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
- Back (n.)
The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
- Back (n.)
The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Back (v. i.)
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- Back (v. i.)
To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
- Back (v. i.)
To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
- Back (v. i.)
To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
- Back (v. i.)
To get upon the back of; to mount.
- Back (v. i.)
To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
- Back (v. i.)
To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
- Back (v. i.)
To place or seat upon the back.
- Back (v. i.)
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
- Back (v. i.)
To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
- Back (v. i.)
To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
- bock (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Coax (n.)
A simpleton; a dupe.
- Coax (v. t.)
To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
- Coxa (n.)
The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
- Jack (n.)
A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
- Jack (n.)
A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
- Jack (n.)
A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
- Jack (n.)
A device to pull off boots.
- Jack (n.)
A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
- Jack (n.)
A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
- Jack (n.)
A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
- Jack (n.)
A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
- Jack (n.)
A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
- Jack (n.)
A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
- Jack (n.)
A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
- Jack (n.)
A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
- Jack (n.)
A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
- Jack (n.)
A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
- Jack (n.)
A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
- Jack (n.)
A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
- Jack (n.)
A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
- Jack (n.)
A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
- Jack (n.)
A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
- Jack (n.)
A sawhorse or sawbuck.
- Jack (n.)
A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
- Jack (n.)
A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
- Jack (n.)
A young pike; a pickerel.
- Jack (n.)
An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
- Jack (n.)
In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
- Jack (n.)
In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
- Jack (n.)
The jurel.
- Jack (n.)
The knave of a suit of playing cards.
- Jack (n.)
The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
- Jack (n.)
The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
- Jack (n.)
The wall-eyed pike.
- Jack (v. i.)
To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
- Jack (v. t.)
To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
- jock (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.