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Jim-crow   Listen
noun
Jim-crow  n.  (Mach.)
1.
A machine for bending or straightening rails.
2.
A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jim-crow" Quotes from Famous Books



... ain't my six-shooter eye which's out,' says the Yallerhouse party, mighty ugly, 'do you know what I'd do? Well, this yere would be the basis of a first-class gun-play. You can gamble thar wouldn't be no jim-crow marshal go pirootin' 'round, losin' no eye of mine an' gettin' away with it, an' then talk of bendin' guns ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis



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