Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spinning-jenny.
- noun A female mule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
mule , 4.
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Examples
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And what need to cram one's self till the age of twenty with all sorts of knowledge, then to fasten the threads of a mule-jenny or pick coal at the bottom of a pit?
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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To properly exploit the mule-jenny, engineers, builders, clerks, brigades of workingmen and workingwomen of all sorts, have been needed.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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