jenny

The female of certain animals, especially a donkey or a wren.

A spinning jenny.

A female bird; used especially as a prefix, as in jenny-heron, jenny-howlet, jenny-jay, jenny-wren, etc.

Specifically A wren: usually called jenny-wren.

A female ass: also called jenny-ass.

A locomotive-crane; a self-propelling crane used for carrying heavy weights.

Compasses with one end bent inward.

A stroke iu English billiards, originally a losing hazard made from balk into a middle pocket, the object-ball being near the pocket, but below it: now applied to any acute-angled pocketing placed from balk to a ball outside, and thence into any of the four pockets beyond balk.

A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, — used in factories. Also called spinning jenny.