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A fictional man who appears as a ghost in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, warning his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge against being greedy and selfish.

plural of Jacob's ladder

(biblical) A ladder leading to heaven. / (botany) A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium. / (nautical) A rope ladder from the ratline to the upper mast.

(fandom slang) The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Jacob Black.

(surveying) A single straight rod or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass.

plural of Jacob's staff

(religion) A pseudepigraphic writing of the Old Testament, preserved only in Slavonic and not generally regarded as scripture.

(anatomy) A layer of rod cells and cone cells in the retina of the human eye.

(biblical) The stone mentioned in the Book of Genesis as having been used as a pillow by the Israelite patriarch Jacob at the place later called Bet-El. Since Jacob had a vision in his sleep, he then consecrated the stone to God. More recently, the stone has been claimed by Scottish folklore and British Israelism.