supplejack

English

Alternative forms

• supple-jack
• supple jack

Noun

Wikispecies supplejack (countable and uncountable, plural supplejacks)

1. Any of various North American vines that have supple stems.
2. A cane made from such a plant used as a walking stick or as a whip.
   • 1895, Edgar Jepson, Sibyl Falcon: A Study in Romantic Morals‎^[1]:

     Above all, knock the first of them down who is insolent, and thrash any of them who are disobedient with a supplejack.

3. A child's toy in the form of a man with jointed limbs controlled by a string; a jumping jack.
   • 1854, James Blackwood, Narrative of an expedition of five Americans into a country of wild animals […] ‎^[2]:

     and his body spread out as usual in his favourite position of a supplejack distorted to the utmost;

4. Any of several vines belonging to the genus Ripogonum, native to New Zealand.

Synonyms

• (vine): kareao, kareau

Translations

a type of vine

• Maori: kareao, taiore, pirita