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unjack

unjack verb: to dislodge or remove a jack from something.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To 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 table1912, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 185, page 1113
    • 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

Forms of unjack

third-person singular presentunjacks
present participleunjacking
past participleunjacked
pastunjacked

Origin of unjack

From un- + jack.

Questions about unjack

What does unjack mean?
Unjack means to dislodge or remove a jack from something.
What part of speech is unjack?
Unjack is a verb.
What is the past tense of unjack?
The past tense of unjack is unjacked.

Words near unjack in the dictionary

  1. Unixlike
  2. Unixoid
  3. Unixoids
  4. Unixy
  5. unjabbed
  6. unjack
  7. unjacked
  8. unjacketed
  9. unjacking
  10. unjacks
  11. unjaded

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