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Definition of Jakes
1. Noun. A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.
Definition of Jakes
1. n. A privy.
Definition of Jakes
1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹
2. Noun. (dated) A privy or latrine. ¹
3. Noun. (plural of jake) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jakes
1. an outhouse [n] - See also: outhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jakes
Literary usage of Jakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1904)
"jakes AND THE LADY I WAS sold to a corn dealer and baker, whom ewo Jerry knew,
... My carter, whose name was jakes, often said it was more than I ought to ..."
2. Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty by Great Britain High Court of Admiralty, Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1897)
"The suit was for the balance of money owing to jakes upon a bill drawn by Fabyan
in Bordeaux, part of the amount having been recovered by jakes upon a first ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"A jakes, or cloaca. ... literally a jakes. Sweet draught! sweet, quoth 'a!
sweet sink, sweet sewer 1 Tr. $- Cr., v, 1. t Л godly father sitting on a draught ..."
4. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1897)
"... to be put into possession thereof in common form) IN RE FABYAN, jakes c. ...
John, at the instance of John jakes, appeared before you at the day and ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834)
"TO DOCTOR jakes CRAIK.f DEAR DOCTOR, Morristown, 26 April, 1777. I am going to
address you on a subject, which may lay some claim to your attention, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"Nominale MS. NBVB. A nephew. Also, a spendthrift, NETTLE-HOUSE. A jakes. North.
NETTLE-SPRINGE. The nettle-rash. Eatt. NETT-UP. Exhausted with cold. ..."
7. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St. James by James Hardy Ropes (1916)
"Russian literature on James the Lord's brother, 56/. STEPS OF jakes, 71, 73.
Symeon Metaphrastes, 73. Syrian church, history of epistle in, 96-100. ..."
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