jerkin

noun

A close-fitting, hip-length, collarless jacket having no sleeves but often extended shoulders, belted and worn over a doublet by men especially in the 1500s.

A short, close-fitting, often sleeveless coat or jacket, usually of leather.

A young salmon: same as ginkin.

A short close-fitting coat or jacket, worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The male of the gerfalcon.