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jemmies
n. (jemmy English)
Usage examples of "jemmies".
Decided finally that the hardware merchants had the nicest things, and bought an adze for my little nephew Gobemouche, a spokeshave for my brother Fairchild, a maul for my brother Hickathrift, and three files, a crow, two jemmies, four lock-picks and a dozen hickory axe-helves for other members of the Marchbanks tribe, as well as gift bottles of TNT for their wives.
There were a couple of tiny jemmies and a Stilson wrench and a lot of lock-picking devices that Ossie had made himself.