Jersey
['dʒɜːzɪ] or ['dʒɝzi]
Definition
(noun.) a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey.
(noun.) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric.
(noun.) a close-fitting pullover shirt.
(noun.) the largest of the Channel Islands.
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Definition
(n.) The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.
(n.) A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).
(n.) One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.
Checked by Felicia
Definition
n. the finest part of wool: combed wool: a close-fitting woollen shirt or kind of under-vest worn in rowing &c.
Edited by Dorothy
Unserious Contents or Definition
Well knit.
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Examples
- His name was Edison, and he had a shop out at Newark, New Jersey. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We have used for a number of years in this laboratory a form of constant water bath which was contrived by Mr. Edward Bogardus, formerly chemist to the New Jersey State Geological Survey. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He lived in Englewood, New Jersey, and the very night he had packed his trunk the house was burglarized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For several Sundays he walked through different parts of New Jersey with two of his assistants before he decided on Menlo Park. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When we arrived at Dover, New Jersey, we got a New York newspaper, and I called his attention to the quotation of that day on General Electric. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The islands of Guernsey and Jersey, without any means of resisting the authority of parliament, are more lightly taxed than any part of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We then bought at a receiver's sale at Harrison, New Jersey, a very large brick factory building which had been used as an oil-cloth works. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He gave up his workshop in New York and opened a factory and experimenting shop in Newark, New Jersey, where he would have plenty of room for himself and his assistants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This was the plan that was subsequently put into practice in the great works at Edison, New Jersey. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Gudrun was all scarlet and royal blue--a scarlet jersey and cap, and a royal blue skirt and stockings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At Jersey City a poker game was started by one of the delegates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was given control of the office, undertook to make his own type, contrived a copper-plate press, the first in America , and printed paper money for New Jersey. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But New Jersey admitted a few women to vote on a property qualification. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1876 I moved, says Edison, to Menlo Park, New Jersey, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, several miles below Elizabeth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She possesses all the beauty of the Jerseys, said I to him; and what a pretty little foot! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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