bottle-jack
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Then you’ll sit in a loop, and we shall haul you up, while you spin round like a roast fowl on a hook, and the bottle-jack up above going click.”
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn
The joint is fixed to an iron hook, which is suspended by a chain connected with a wheel, and which, in its turn, is connected with the bottle-jack.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Spit the beef firmly, or, if a bottle-jack is used, put the joint on the hook, and place it near a nice clear fire.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
But really I do object to be swinging there at the end of a string like a confounded leg of mutton under a bottle-jack.
From Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by A. Forestier
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