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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jim-crow

Jim-crow \Jim"-crow`\, a. For negroes only; set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination.

Jim-crow

Jim-crow \Jim"-crow`\, n. (Mach.)

  1. A machine for bending or straightening rails.

  2. A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.