Air jacket

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A lifejacket.

    "AIR-JACKET. A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water."

  2. 2
    an inflatable life jacket wordnet
  3. 3
    An inflatable vest worn to cushion falls.

    "1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16, […] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson."

  4. 4
    An enclosed space containing nothing but air that surrounds something in order to provide insulation.

    "In the first Daimler gasoline engines a current of air was forced through an air jacket surrounding the cylinder by means of a rotary fan mounted on the crank shaft."

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