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JEMMY (jemmied)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jemmy mean?
• JEMMY (noun)
The noun JEMMY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: JEMMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short crowbar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
jemmy; jimmy
Context example:
in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy
Hypernyms ("jemmy" is a kind of...):
crowbar; pry; pry bar; wrecking bar (a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge)
Context examples
Turning up the cuffs of his dress-coat—he had placed his overcoat on a chair—Holmes laid out two drills, a jemmy, and several skeleton keys.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Now you may mizzle, jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I'll operate on him.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Such things are not much in demand hereabouts. That sets me off again! I haven't seen a pretty woman since I've been here, jemmy.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This is a first-class, up-to-date burgling kit, with nickel-plated jemmy, diamond-tipped glass-cutter, adaptable keys, and every modern improvement which the march of civilization demands.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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