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(1):

(n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.

(2):

(n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Jackstraw'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​j/jackstraw.html. 1828.
 
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