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# jerkin

«jerkin» in Mova's school dictionary: **A short, close-fitting jacket without sleeves, often of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a jerkin, jerkins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A short, close-fitting jacket without sleeves, often of leather, worn by men in the 1500s and 1600s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#m1)

2) A modern sleeveless jacket, especially a work or high-visibility one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

History lessons about Tudor and Stuart clothes; costumes in plays and stories of olden days. In stories it tells the reader about a character's old-fashioned dress, such as a soldier or a woodman.

### examples

- The Tudor man wore a leather jerkin over his shirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x1)
- For the play I wore a brown jerkin and a hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x2)
- The archers wore jerkins and carried longbows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x3)
- Builders wear bright yellow jerkins on site. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x4)
- In the picture, the knave wears a red jerkin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x5)
- The woodcutter's jerkin was torn by brambles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x6)
- The master no longer wore the white garments of the day before, but a black jerkin, held in its place by a leathern girdle with huge clasps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/#x7)

### note

Plural: jerkins. A historical clothing word; today «vest» (UK: «waistcoat» or «gilet») is used for similar clothes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jerkin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jerkin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.