Usually means: Sleeveless jacket, often made leather.
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  1. jerkin: Merriam-Webster
  2. jerkin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jerkin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jerkin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Jerkin, jerkin: Wordnik
  6. jerkin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. jerkin: Wiktionary
  8. jerkin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jerkin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. jerkin: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Jerkin, jerkin: Dictionary.com
  12. jerkin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Jerkin (disambiguation), Jerkin (garment), Jerkin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Jerkin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. jerkin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. jerkin: Rhymezone
  17. Jerkin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. jerkin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Jerkin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. jerkin: FreeDictionary.org
  21. jerkin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. jerkin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. jerkin: Vocabulary.com
  24. jerkin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Jerkin: Urban Dictionary

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  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jerkin)

▸ noun:  (historical) A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
▸ noun:  A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of gyrkin [(obsolete) A male gyrfalcon.]

Similar:
jerkinet, jirkinet, buff jerkin, half-kirtle, tabard, jac-shirt, doublet, jump, justacorps, monkey jacket, more...

Opposite:
tunic, blouse, shirt

Types:
gambeson, doublet, padded jack, aketon, buff coat, arming coat, more...

Phrases:
buff jerkin, medieval sleeveless jerkin, more...

Adjectives:
buff, leathern, green, sleeveless, black, new, blue, red, brown, short, grey

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Similar:
jerkinet, jirkinet, buff jerkin, half-kirtle, tabard, jac-shirt, doublet, jump, justacorps, monkey jacket, more...

Opposite:
tunic, blouse, shirt

Types:
gambeson, doublet, padded jack, aketon, buff coat, arming coat, more...

Phrases:
buff jerkin, medieval sleeveless jerkin, more...

Adjectives:
buff, leathern, green, sleeveless, black, new, blue, red, brown, short, grey

Colors:
    brown,     green,     black,     red,     tan, more...



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