Archaic Definition of the Week – Jacket

1 July 2010
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publishingJACKET _ To cover a bum (motherless) lamb with the skin of a dead lamb.  Going by smell, the mother of the dead lamb will then nurse the bum lamb.

- Dictionary of the American West by Winfred Blevins.

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