Meaning & use
Jenny
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A female donkey, or, historically, a spinning jenny used to spin multiple threads of yarn or cotton simultaneously.
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The farm kept a jack and a jenny to breed mules.
The invention of the spinning jenny in the 1760s dramatically sped up textile production.
A note on using this word
James Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny around 1764, a key machine of the early Industrial Revolution.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A multi-spindle spinning frame used to spin several threads of yarn at once, invented during the Industrial Revolution.
Rows of spinning jennies filled the early textile mill.
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