jenny
/ˈdʒɛni/
noun
- A female donkey.
- We saw a jenny and her baby at the petting zoo.
- Farmers often keep a jenny to help guard sheep from predators.
- The jenny grazed peacefully in the pasture with her foal.
- A spinning jenny, an early machine for spinning multiple threads at once, used in the textile industry.
- The spinning jenny revolutionized cloth production in the 18th century.
- James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in 1764.
- Visitors to the museum can see a replica of a spinning jenny.
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