English Dictionary

jackpot

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/

名詞

アメリカ英語 西部方言

(Western US) A difficult situation. / A jumble of felled timber.

日本語の意味

（米西部）窮地、厳しい、困難な状況 / 切り倒された木が乱雑に積まれた状態、倒木の束

When the storm blew out the bridge and the bus ran out of fuel, the stranded travelers realized they'd landed in a jackpot.

嵐で橋が壊れ、バスの燃料が尽きたとき、立ち往生した旅行者たちは自分たちが本当に困った状況に陥っていることに気づいた。

意味（1）

(Western US) A difficult situation.

and if you are not next to the ways and customs, the first thing you know you are in a jackpot so big four one spots would not be openers. I don't know what that last expression means, but I heard a fellow use it, and he was talking about a fellow that was in a very bad fix.

意味（2）

A jumble of felled timber.

It frequently happens that trees fall across one another, forming what is known as a jackpot. A number of trees may fall in a single jackpot. One of the tools with which appellant claims a bucker should be provided is an undercutter rigging. When trees are in a jackpot, the proper method of procedure is to first cut the lower tree, and then the upper one. This lessens the liability of an upper log rolling or falling upon the workman while he Is engaged in cutting the lower tree. The cut of the lower tree is ordinarily made by sawing it from the upper side, but, when its position produces a strain which pinches the saw, it is sawed from the under side by what is known as an undercut. To make an undercut, it is necessary to have some appliance to support the moving saw which is then operated teeth upward. The appliance which appellant contends Is ordinarily used is known as an undercutter rigging. Having no undercutter rigging, appellant requested respondent's foreman to provide one, complaining that his work in a jackpot of large trees without one was unsafe and dangerous.

jackpots （ plural ）