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A short crowbar
Answer for the clue "A short crowbar ", 5 letters:
jemmy
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Word definitions for jemmy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jimmy \Jim"my\, n.; pl. Jimmies . [Cf. Jemmy .] A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a popular pet form of the masc. proper name James (in Middle English records, Gemme , Jemme are more common than Jimme ). In mid-18c. often associated with effeminacy and male fastidiousness. As "a crowbar" from 1811.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy" [syn: jimmy ] [also: jemmied ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A jemmy is a housebreaker's weapon, not a murderer's. ▪ A jemmy might suggest the murderer had gone to burgle the premises. ▪ A jemmy would simply destroy the frame.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context archaic English) Of spruce. n. 1 (context archaic British slang English) A baked sheep's head. 2 (context Australia slang English) An immigrant. 3 (context obsolete slang English) A greatcoat. 4 (alternative spelling of jimmy lang=en nodot=1) (gloss: ...
Usage examples of jemmy.
The sound of footsteps came to her from the deck overhead and she realized belatedly that the sound of distress that had wakened her had not come from Jemmy, but from the darkness at her side.
Brianna ducked under the hanging quilt, turning to reach back for Jemmy, who was alternately coughing and crying, having not liked the cold water at all.
He hoicked Jemmy up onto his shoulder like a bundle of laundry and squatted down, poking at the ground in search of the watch chain, which Jemmy had evidently hurled into the darkness.
Jemmy and as the door slammed shut turned to follow Shoar, who led the way to a small, single-storey brick building at the end of the dock.
In one hand he held the ugly-looking jemmy he had taken from the burglar, and the new clothes he had donned, ill-fitting and soiled, served to accentuate the ungainliness of his form.
Jemmy, wiped it on a fold of his plaid, and slid it away into its scabbard.
One shoulder rose as he shrugged, and he shifted Jemmy to his other arm, wiping residual drool from his hand against the side of his breeches.
Germain and Jemmy were both crying, Joan was shrieking her head off in the wood, and I dropped the bucket and crawled madly for shelter behind a yaupon bush.
Yet through the bellowing of mess numbers and the banging of mess kids, Plaice and Jemmy Ducks stuck doggedly to their tasks in the galley, standing there in the midst of the tide, blocking the fairway fore and aft.
Jemmy had poked a curious head up from his cradle, and his grandfather, smiling, had scooped him out and taken him upon his knee.
The man leaned down and scooped Jemmy deftly from my arms, allowing me to mount Judas and get proper hold of the reins before handing Jemmy carefully back.
Jemmy, survivor of an unfeudal generation which had had all the trouble it wanted, telephoned the county town auctioneer to offer all live and dead stock on the home farm at the first autumn sales.
Jemmy, sir, I wipe the tables and I fetch the water and the coffee and then I tell a waitperson to come get your order.
Grabbing Jemmy round the middle, she pulled him down from the table, where he had been eyeing the jar with greedy curiosity.
Brianna thought, eyeing Jemmy with some trepidation as she envisioned the future.