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A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
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A female creature of certain kinds, such as wren and donkey.
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A catmill.
Examples of jenny in a Sentence
Jenny Calvia had been the love of Randy's life since high school.
Jenny is younger than any of us!
When they finally finished and left the station, Jenny drove the exhausted pair home.
He was still searching and putting things back together when Officer Jack McCarty and his female partner Jenny Nachman arrived, with the doctor close on their heels.
Jenny Nachman pulled the short straw to carry the news to Ida Wassermann.
At seventeen, Jenny would easily have passed for twenty-one.
On the other hand, maybe he would enjoy her company – certainly Rob would and that would take his attention off Jenny.
Jenny had arrived earlier and the three youngest children were napping.
Cotton was first imported to Providence from Spain in 1785; a company to carry on cotton-spinning, formed at Providence in 1786, established there in the following year a factory containing a spinning jenny of 28 spindles (the first machine of the kind to be used in the United States), and also a carding machine and a spinning frame with which was manufactured a kind of jean having a linen warp and a cotton filling.
The procedure was purely despotic, and at the first attempt to use the liturgy in St Giles's there broke out the famous " Jenny Geddes " riot in the church (23rd of July 1637).
In the 18th century the ability of certain natives of the town greatly fostered its cotton industry; thus James Hargreaves here probably invented his spinning jenny about 1764, though the operatives, fearing a reduction of labour, would have none of it, and forced him to quit the town for Nottingham.
The leaves form a radical rosette as in Primula (primrose, cowslip, &c.), or there is a well-developed aerial stem which is erect, as in species of Lysimachia, or creeping, as in Lysimachia Nummularia (creeping jenny or money-wort).
The invention of the steam engine, following quickly upon that of the carding machine, the spinning jenny, and other ingenious machinery employed in textile manufactures, gave an extraordinary impulse to their development, and, with them, that of kindred branches of industry.
If the skeleton dated back to the 1960's, as they were now beginning to believe, all the current players—the four Dawkinses, stepmother Jenny Radisson, and even Fitzgerald—would have barely been born, thereby excusing them from any direct culpability.
Jenny wasn't particularly attractive, but she did have a mature figure.
On the other hand, maybe he would enjoy her company – certainly Rob would and that would take his attention off Jenny.
Reception Corridor area The same apparition of a little boy was seen by Jenny [Manager] in this area.
Well done to all players, especially Jenny, who continued to play her solo cadenza despite an off-putting phone ringing!
Jenny has perfect pitch and can even tell you what note your glass clinks during dinner!
His only confidante remains night club singer Jenny, whose physical restoration fuels the flame of his spiritual redemption.
Now single, she lives alongside Jenny in France and is fully employed renovating a cottage.
A cotton-spinning jenny is a machine for spinning cotton.
Here we found meadow and bloody cranesbill, creeping jenny and rock stonecrop, as well as hoary plantain in flower.
Clearing worked for me says Alexis Jenny finds a new direction...despite exam disappointment How does it feel to be a larger person?
Jenny and Jack A female donkey is called a Jenny A male is called a Jack.
However at our annual gathering on 20 th October I was pleased to meet Jenny Daniel who has kindly offered to assist.
Featuring four unsigned Scottish Bands - Vera Cruz, Miss Jenny, Philly and hip hoppers Reach Out.
Jenny makes these beautifully intricate wall panels out of clay.
Controlling invasive plants Some creeping rock plants, such as creeping jenny, become invasive by the middle of the summer.
By 1811, only 3.1% of Lancashireâs cotton capacity was accounted for by small workshops using the spinning jenny.
In the first or second of those years - ie 1763 or 1764 - Leather attested, Highs built his first jenny.
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Most of the time only Jenny and her husband are in the car, and being tall they need good legroom.
Jenny has spent a lifetime studying the ways of horses.
You 've lost that Loving Feeling Jenny Dowling, alias Scrooge Has Christmas lost its sparkle for you?
Jenny is perfect, she is always happy and is both extremely lovable and loving.
Jenny participates in the Teacher Training Program at Heruka Center, where she also leads many of the chanted meditations.
Jenny Jones was about a welsh miner with 18 children who wanted to make it 21!
Lavishly illustrated with color photos by Jenny and other wildlife photographers.
Jenny Devereux is known as one of the finest floral printmakers.
Must also remember to bring a knife to Spinning Jenny that day - ritual sacrifice of cake!
The crossing of the Irish Sea took two days and Jenny was very seasick.
So Jenny suggests we become airline stewardesses and see the world that way!
Jenny has been incredibly supportive, bless her heart.
Kramer is fighting Richmond Park, the seat vacated by Dr. Jenny Tonge.
In Jenny's case, the anorexia happened long before she became veggie.
I even spotted a jenny wren on the compost heap.
The little jenny wren, whose nest I mentioned in my previous letter, has now hatched out her family.
Must also remember to bring a knife to Spinning Jenny that day - ritual sacrifice of cake !