jemmy

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• Jemmy

  ·noun A baked sheep's head. II. Jemmy ·adj <<Spruce>>. III. Jemmy ·noun A short crowbar. ·see <<Ji...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jemmy

  A finical fellow in the usual sense, but adopted as a nautical term by the mutineers of '97, to expr...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• jemmy fellow

  A smart spruce fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jemmy donnelly

  n. a ridiculous name given to three trees, Euroschinus falcatus, Hook, N.O. Anacardiaceae; Myrsine ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jemmy ducks

  The ship's poulterer. A sobriquet which has universally obtained in a man-of-war. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book