Jăck'-straw, n.
n. 1. A low, servile fellow. Milton.
Sense 2. The black-cap, or black-cap warbler. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Sense 3. One of a set of straws or strips of ivory, bone, &c., for playing a child's game, the jack-straws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without the least disturbance of the rest of the pile.