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jack: •a sailor or seaman
jagger: •A sailing vessel which followed the fishing fleet in order to bring the fish to market; a sailor of same; •A pedlar, carrier, hawker or drover; •mining A man who carries ore on pack animals from the mine to the smelter;; •a boy in charge of the jags or trains of ore cars in the mine
jayhawker: •one of the free-soil guerillas in Kansas and Missouri during the 1854-1859 border disputes.; •a Unionist gierrilla.
Jayhawker: •informal a native or resident of Kansas
jeweler sp: Chiefly Brit.: jeweller: •a maker or dealer in jewels or jewelry.
joiner Also: joyner: •a person who makes furniture and light woodwork.; •a skilled carpenter.
jointress: •a widow who holds a jointure (=an estate settled on a widow for the period during which she survives her husband)
jongleur: •a wandering minstrel, poet or entertainer in medieval England and France
journeyman: •one who had served his apprenticeship and mastered his craft, not bound to serve a master, but hired by the day
judge: •a public officer appointed or elected to hear and try causes in a court of justice; •a person appointed to decide a dispute or contest; •Jewish hist. a leader having temporary authority in Israel in the period Joshua and the Kings.
judge advocate general Also: JAG: •mil. an officer in supreme control of the courts martial in the armed forces
Junker /yoong'·ker/: •G hist a young German nobleman; •a member of an exclusive Prussian aristocratic party
jurist: •a legal expert, lawyer, or writer; •a judge or justice
justice: •a magistrate.; •a judge, esp. of a supreme court.
justiciar: •Eng. a chief legal and political advisor;; •one deputized for the King in his absence; •one entrusted with supreme control of the jurisdiction of the Law Courts of a country or large province.

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