Jackstraw is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter J and ends with the letter W for which we found 2 definitions.
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(n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence a man without property or influence. |
(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. |
The word jackstraw is a 9 letter word that has 2 syllable 's . The syllable division for jackstraw is: jack-straw