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Last seen on: The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword No 27,309 – Sep 21 2017
Random information on the term “JACK”:
A jack, screwjack or jackscrew is a mechanical device used as a lifting device to lift heavy loads or to apply great forces. A mechanical jack employs a screw thread for lifting heavy equipment. A hydraulic jack uses hydraulic power. The most common form is a car jack, floor jack or garage jack, which lifts vehicles so that maintenance can be performed. Jacks are usually rated for a maximum lifting capacity (for example, 1.5 tons or 3 tons). Industrial jacks can be rated for many tons of load.
The personal name Jack, which came into English usage around the thirteenth century as a nickname form of John, came in the sixteenth century to be used as a colloquial word for ‘a man (of low status)’ (much as in the modern usage ‘jack of all trades, master of none’). From here, the word was ‘applied to things which in some way take the place of a lad or man, or save human labour’. The first attestation in the Oxford English Dictionary of jack in the sense ‘a machine, usually portable, for lifting heavy weights by force acting from below’ is from 1679, referring to ‘an Engine used for the removing and commodious placing of great Timber.’