The secret of this device soon came out and jennies spinning twenty or thirty or more threads at a time came into use here and there through the old spinning districts.
An ingenious weaver named Samuel Crompton, perceiving that the roller spinning was more rapid but that the jennies would spin the finer thread, combined the two devices into one machine, known from its hybrid origin as the "mule.
The jennies should be relieved from work while in foal for fatigue at that time injures the offspring: but the jacks, on the contrary, are worked all the time, because it is lack of exercise which is bad for them.
The jennies are bred before the solstice so that they may have their foals at the same season in the following year, for their period of gestation is twelve months.
Both jennies and mules were known as "wheels," because they were worked in part by the turning of a wheel.
Hargreaves unfortunately was unable to maintain his patent, because he had sold jennies before applying for protection.
He began with six spinning-jennies and a carding-engine, to which he afterwards added looms for weaving calicoes, jeans, and velveteens.
Long jennies to the top pockets are a difficult and pretty stroke: short jennies are into the middle pockets.
The spinning-jennies of England have a little to answer for in this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jennies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
