jinnyn.1
/ˈdʒɪni/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪni/ Manx English.
More fully jinny nettle. A stinging nettle, Urtica dioica.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Urticaceae (nettle and allies) > [noun]
nettleeOE
dock-nettlea1300
Greekish nettlec1450
Roman nettle1578
red nettle1611
ettle1688
urtica1706
bur-nettle1714
pill nettle1714
nettle plant1764
richweed1814
clearweed1822
sting-nettle1822
ongaonga1842
nettlewort1846
urtical1846
jinny1876
1876 T. E. Brown in Isle of Man Times 2 Dec. 2/3 And me just rubbin' down the meer, And a jenny nettle, and poppin' it Under her tail.
1898 Peel City Guardian 26 Nov. He..could not even claim the distinction of being a Moar among the Cushags..or even a crusher of the ‘jinny nettle’.
1940 Isle of Man Weekly Times 27 July 7/5 Flattened out amongst jenny nettles and thorns.
1958 Isle of Man Daily Times 1 Sept. 5/2 ‘Oh the jinnies (nettles),’ shouted a young boy as he jumped from the cross bar of a cycle on which he was being given a ‘lift’.
2016 @PcLou206 25 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Today I kept someone safe from harm but in the process of doing so got stung from knee to bottom with Jinny Nettles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jinnyn.2
/ˈdʒɪni/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪni/, Manx English /ˈdʒɪni/ 1. Mining. A stationary engine used to let down or draw up trucks on an inclined plane; also = jinny-road n. a self-acting inclined plane; = jig n.1 6d.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for conveying coal, etc.
pithead1662
wagon-way1727
wagon-gallery1839
jig1866
up-brow1867
jig-brow1877
jinny-road1877
plane1877
chain road1883
loader gate1964
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > other specific engines
ballast engine?1748
reciprocator1769
bellows-engine1834
jack engine1847
power producer1859
trunk-engine1864
naphtha engine1876
jinny1877
barring engine1885
shifter1904
yarder1911
mill1918
rocket1919
booster1944
monobloc1944
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 69/1 The drawing roads for the coal may be of three different kinds,—(1) levels driven at right angles to the dip,..(2) rise ways, known as jinny roads, jig-brows, or up-brows,..(3) dip or down-brows, requiring engine power.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 149 Jinny-road, a gravity plane underground.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Ginny, an engine by means of which a load is let down an inclined plane. A term used in coal-mining.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Jinny, a self-acting incline where the full tubs of coal pull the empty ones up.
2. A name given in Long Island, U.S., to a bird, Strepsilas interpres, the Turnstone.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > arenaria interpres (turnstone)
sea-lark1602
turnstone1674
sea-dotterel1676
stone-pecker1731
whale-bird1771
bullfinch plover1864
tangle-picker1882
turkey-bird1885
jinny1888
sparked back (plover)1888
1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 186 At Moriches, Maggot-snipe; at Amityville, Jinny.
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