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Jack-a-Lent: figure of a man set up to be pelted, an ancient form of the sport of Aunt Sally practised during Lent; hence fig. (1) butt for every one to throw at Wiv. V. v. 137; (2) puppet, contemptible person Wiv. III. iii. 27.
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