jinny road

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English

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Etymology

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Compare gin (an engine), ginny-carriage.

Noun

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jinny road (plural jinny roads)

  1. (mining) An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Jinny road”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. [], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton [], →OCLC.