Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a crowbar having at one end a claw similar to a hammer-claw.
- noun A tool for bending or straightening iron rails or bars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective For negroes only; set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination.
- noun (Mach.) A machine for bending or straightening rails.
- noun A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.
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Examples
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Negro today is that the average white man expects him to "jump jim-crow" or do the buffoon act, whether in music or in other things.
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The camaradas, on the other hand, had jim-crow saddles and bridles, and rusty little iron stirrups into which they thrust their naked toes.
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They wore the usual shirt, trousers, and fringed leather apron, with jim-crow hats.
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Page 8 year 1904, in connection with the effort to introduce "disfranchisement" and "jim-crow" conditions into this State.
Men of Maryland George Freeman 1914
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No, it isn't about my mine -- I wouldn't sell you one share in it for your whole little jim-crow bank.
Rimrock Jones Dane Coolidge 1906
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Shall the black soldier hero be allowed to take his croix de guerre into a jim-crow car?
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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The camaradas, on the other hand, had jim-crow saddles and bridles, and rusty little iron stirrups into which they thrust their naked toes.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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They wore the usual shirt, trousers, and fringed leather apron, with jim-crow hats.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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One of these scout chiefs is all buckskins, fringes, beads an 'feathers from y'ears to hocks, while t'other goes garbed in a stiff hat with a little jim-crow rim -- one of them kind you deenom'nates as a darby -- an' a diag'nal overcoat; one chief looks like a dime novel on a spree an 't'other as much like the far East as he saveys how.
How The Raven Died 1902, From "Wolfville Nights" Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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I encounters him in one of the little jim-crow restauraws you-all finds now an 'then in the Injun country.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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