job-watch

(job’ woch), x. Naut., same as hack- watch. job-work (job’wérk), ». 1. Work done by the job instead of by the day; work done to order, or to fulfil an engagement. The fact that a great deal of his [Dryden’s] work was job-work, that most of it was done in a hurry, led him often to fill up a gap with the first sonorous epithet that came to hand. Lowell, New Princeton Rey., I. 155. 2. In printing, specifically, a cla of miscellaneous work, generally requiring display or ornamentation. jocantt, a. [ME. jocaunt, jockey 2+. A strolling minstrel. [Scotch.] For example and terror three or four hundred of the most notorious of those villains [vagabonds, beggars] which we call Jockys might be presented by the Government to the State of Venice, to serve in their Gallies against the common enemy of Christen dom. A, Fletcher (1688), quoted in Ribton-Turner’s Vagrants {and Vagrancy, p. 359. 8. A groom; a rider or driver of horses; specifically, a man or boy employed to ride horses in races. Room for my lord! three jockeys in his train; Six huntsmen with a shout precede his chair. Pope, Dunciad, ii. 192. 4}. A dealer in horses; especially, a horse-dealer who is given to cheating; a tricky horse trader: more commonly called a horse-jockey. You know what cheating Tricks are play’d by our Jockeys, who sell and let out Horses. N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 412. 5. A cheat; one who deceives or takes undue advantage in trade: from the reputation of horse-traders for trickery. He [Frampton] is described as being the oldest and as they say the cunningest jockey in England; one day he lost 1.000 gs., the next he won 2.000, and so alternately. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 306. 6. In coal-mining, a self-acting apparatus carried on the front tub of a set for releasing it from the hauling-rope at a certain point. [Eng.] —7%. In mech., same as jockey-wheel.— 8, A thin _walking-stick. [Prov. Eng.]