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jenny
noun as in donkey
noun as in spinning frame
Example Sentences
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.
“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.
Creeping jenny or a trailing rosemary will extend down the side of a tall pot, providing an attractive asymmetrical note.
One, called “jenny’s trying,” is just one line: “why hide?”
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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