Brewer's: Jerkin

A short coat or jacket; a close waistcoat.

“Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line.” —Shakespeare: The Tempest, iv. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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