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How to use jackleg in a sentence

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Part of me thinks what he does here's extremely cool and part of me thinks he looks and sounds like a complete jackleg.
He quit high school, which was common in those days, and he was a jackleg miner in the McIntyre Mine.
There's the jackleg, where competitors use a six-foot-long hydraulic drill bit to see who can bore the deepest.
Rockbolts and rebars are installed using either handheld equipment such as a stoper or a jackleg or mechanized equipment such as a rockbolting rig capable of performing the entire installation cycle mechanically.
The fact that Rachel is Henry's first cousin doesn't seem to concern either Henry or his angel, who — speaking through Henry's horse — officiates at the jackleg marriage ceremony in a backwoods farmyard.
He was promoted to mine superintendent in 1937, and demonstrated his progressive approach to mining by introducing the jackleg drill and the Elmco loader at the operation.
Jackleg drills, very common in the mining industry, have been shown to produce vibration levels that can lead to hand-arm vibration syndrome in their users.
Examples from Classical Literature
This train that was stopping to cast loose the special car at jackleg was the last to stop at that station at night.
A jackleg colored preacher talked, but he didn't have sense 'nuff to preach a sho' 'nuff sermon.
This was so at jackleg, but it gave a long vista of Main Street from the heart of the town to its outlying suburbs.
But she did not believe they were well rid of Ratty just because he had started for jackleg Station.
Out there in the sunshine the jackleg looked the part, so I wondered how we come to be faked by him.
She and her guest were talking about the forthcoming pageant at the jackleg schoolhouse.
I flagged him back a piece and told him the jackleg was there.
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