…a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected…
…an offshore drilling rig the legs of which are lowered to the seabed from the operating platform…
…(died 1450), Irish rebel; full name John Cade. In 1450, he assumed the name of Mortimer and led the Kentish rebels against Henry VI. They occupied London for three days and executed the treasurer of England and the sheriff of Kent…
…a small arch only one brick in thickness, especially as used in numbers to support a floor…
…an edible bean, or its edible pod, used especially as fodder in tropical countries…
…a small, hardy North American pine with very short needles, found chiefly in Canada…
…a plug consisting of a single shaft used to make a connection that transmits a signal, typically used in sound equipment…
…(1935–2009), US politician; full name Jack French Kemp. He was a professional football player 1957–69. A conservative Republican from New York State, he was a member of the US House of Representatives 1971–89 and then served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development 1989–93. He was the Republican candidate for vice president in 1996…
…a small rope extending vertically from the topping lift to the boom for holding a fore-and-aft sail when it is being taken down…
…(1918–2004), US television personality; full name Jack Harold Paar. He was host of The Tonight Show 1957–62 (officially The Jack Paar Show from 1959)…
…(1911–67), US nightclub owner; born Jack Rubenstein. On November 24, 1963, he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of murdering President Kennedy. The act was captured on national television…
…(1894–1974), US comedian and actor; born Benjamin Kubelsky. His radio series The Jack Benny Program ran from 1932 to 1955. Made for television, The Jack Benny Show was broadcast 1950–65…
…a chain of links each consisting of a double loop of wire resembling a figure 8, but with the loops in planes at right angles to each other…
…a screw that can be turned to adjust the position of an object into which it fits…
…(1925–2001), US actor; born John Uhler Lemmon III. Acclaimed for both comedy and drama, he appeared in such movies as Mr. Roberts (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Odd Couple (1968), and Save the Tiger (1973)…
…(1876–1916), US novelist; pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney. The Klondike gold rush of 1897 provided the material for his works, which depict the struggle for survival. Notable works: The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)…
…the national flag of the United Kingdom, consisting of red and white crosses on a blue background…
…(b.1935), English footballer and manager, brother of Bobby Charlton; full name John Charlton. A Leeds United defender, he was a member of the England side that won the World Cup in 1966. He later managed a number of teams including the Republic of Ireland national side (1986–95)…
…(1895–1983), US boxer; full name William Harrison Dempsey. He was world heavyweight champion 1919–26…
…a terrier of a small working breed with short legs…
…(1878–1946), US boxer. He was the first black world heavyweight champion 1908–15…
…a calisthenic jump done from a standing position with legs together and arms at the sides to a position with the legs apart and the arms over the head…
…(1922–69), US novelist and poet; born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac. A leading figure of the beat generation, he is best known for his semiautobiographical novel On the Road (1957). Other notable works: Doctor Sax (1959) and Big Sur (1962)…
…a kind of cheese resembling cheddar…
…a jack for heavy lifting, operated by a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a frame of hinged, rhombus-shaped linkages…
…(1937-), US actor; full name John Joseph Nicholson. Notable movies: Easy Rider (1969), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Terms of Endearment (1983), As Good as It Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002), and The Departed (2006)…
…(1905–64) US jazz trombonist and singer; full name Weldon John Teagarden. He had his own big band 1939–46 and then played with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars 1947–51…
…a card game in which points are won for the high trump, low trump, jack of trumps, and either the ten of trumps or the most points…
…a lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin in which holes are cut to represent facial features, typically made at Halloween…
…(b.1926), Australian motor-racing driver; full name John Arthur Brabham. He won the Formula One world championship three times (1959, 1960, 1966)…
…(1882–1963), English cricketer; full name John Berry Hobbs. During his career (1905–34) he scored 61,237 runs and 197 centuries, and made 61 test appearances for England…
…a toy consisting of a box containing a figure on a spring that pops up when the lid is opened…
