supplejack

plural supplejacks · alternative supple-jack · alternative supple jack

1. countableuncountableAny of various North American vines that have supple stems.

   Synonyms: kareao, kareau

2. countableuncountableA cane made from such a plant used as a walking stick or as a whip.

   Above all, knock the first of them down who is insolent, and thrash any of them who are disobedient with a supplejack.

   1895, Edgar Jepson, Sibyl Falcon: A Study in Romantic Morals

3. countableuncountableA child's toy in the form of a man with jointed limbs controlled by a string; a jumping jack.

   and his body spread out as usual in his favourite position of a supplejack distorted to the utmost;

   1854, James Blackwood, Narrative of an expedition of five Americans into a country of wild animals […]

4. countableuncountableAny of several vines belonging to the genus Ripogonum, native to New Zealand.