[With sense 1 cf. JACK sb.1 30; with 2 cf. jedge, JADGE.]

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  † 1.  = JACK sb.1 30, a young pike. Obs.

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1611.  Cotgr., Lanceron, a Ieg, or Iacke; a Pickerell thats about a foot long.

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1708.  Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lx. (1737), 246. [in a list of fish, shell-fish, etc.] Jegs.

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  2.  (See quot.)

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1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Jeg, a templet or gage … for verifying shapes of parts in gun and gun-stock making.

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