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jenny

noun as in donkey

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While the spinning jenny was key to 18th century automation of the textiles industry, they found it led to longer working hours in harsher conditions.

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“Scientific evidence for intelligence in donkeys could expose their historical unmerited cognitive derogatory status,” the report begins about the species — the male of which is called a jack and the female is a jenny.

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Creeping jenny or a trailing rosemary will extend down the side of a tall pot, providing an attractive asymmetrical note.

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One, called “jenny’s trying,” is just one line: “why hide?”

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These jeremiads attended the invention of computers, combine harvesters, spinning jennies and probably iron-age axes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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