unjack

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verb

To dislodge or remove a jack from something.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbunjack (third-person singular simple present unjacks, present participle unjacking, simple past and past participle unjacked)

present singular third person unjacks · participle present unjacking · participle past unjacked · past unjacked

  1. transitiveTo dislodge or remove a jack from something.

    jack to hold the same for treatment, and means acting automatically to unjack the shoe as the support or jack is moved outward on said table

    1912, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 185, page 1113
    2 more examples

    Jackup platforms of small dimensions are usually severely limited by weather conditions, since they are unstable and dangerous to unjack when wave heights are greater than a few feet.

    1972, E. D'Appolonia, Underwater Soil Sampling, Testing, and Construction Control, American Society for Testing and Materials, →ISBN, page 43

    She gave it a go, with no luck. "I'm freezing. I've got to get back inside." "Then we're screwed. You can't." "Un-jack this fucking thing, I'm going in."

    2016, Karen Ginther Graham, Finding Rose Rocks, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page

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