Jack-a-Lent

English

Noun

Jack-a-Lent (plural Jack-a-Lents)

  1. (obsolete) A small stuffed puppet at which stones were thrown at during Lent.
  2. (obsolete, by extension) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A simple fellow.
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