Jack-in-the-water
English
Noun
Jack
-
in
-
the
-
water
(
plural
Jacks-in-the-water
)
(
UK
,
slang
,
obsolete
)
An
attendant
at the
watermen
's
stairs
on the
river
and
seaport
towns
.
References
John Camden Hotten (
1873
)
The Slang Dictionary