jinny road

English

Etymology

Compare gin (“an engine”), ginny-carriage.

Noun

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
  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.
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