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noun

Black-jack n.

(Min.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; called also false galena. See Blende.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

A large leather vessel for beer, etc. (Obs.)

(Bot.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.

The ensign of a pirate.

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Etymology of 'Black-jack'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Black-jack" Quotes from Famous Books

... the junction of two rivers, between which intervened a narrow point of land, with a background of steep hills, covered with a growth of black-jack and yellow-pine to the summit. Here was a ferry with its Charon-like boat, of the primitive sort—flat barge, poled over by negroes, and capable of containing at one time many bales of cotton, a stagecoach or wagon with four horses, ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield