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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jemmy.

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Examples

  • The state headed by Blair, and partly jemmied open by FoI, is the same state that tried to spy on more and more of its citizens.

    First Big Brother, now Little Brother, and both are deadly 2010

  • "Could've jemmied our way in and nicked the silver, no problem," Shirley said.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • We lurked in the shrubbery until the last light had been extinguished, then broke in using the side window that Raffles had jemmied the previous evening -- the butler had evidently not thought it worth bolting the stable door, so to speak -- opened the safe, and took the stones, which were, Raffles whispered, quite undisturbed.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • I then jemmied a side window, which the police did not notice, since of course they knew the thieves had come and gone through the french window.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • We lurked in the shrubbery until the last light had been extinguished, then broke in using the side window that Raffles had jemmied the previous evening -- the butler had evidently not thought it worth bolting the stable door, so to speak -- opened the safe, and took the stones, which were, Raffles whispered, quite undisturbed.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • And I'll leave the other little details, footprints in the snow, jemmied windows, and the rest of it, to you as well.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • And I'll leave the other little details, footprints in the snow, jemmied windows, and the rest of it, to you as well.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • I then jemmied a side window, which the police did not notice, since of course they knew the thieves had come and gone through the french window.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • I'd reached a woozy level of thinking 'fire' and 'dammit, we have fuel in both wing tanks this time', and various comforting little items along those lines, but the rescue mob outside jemmied the door open and scooped us carefully and quite fast out of our nose-down cabin and covered the fuel leaks around them and us with foam and expedition.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • He opened the wire door, noting in the red light a padlock that had been jemmied open.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

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