A female proper name (also Jeanie), pet-form of JANE; used locally in transferred uses. (Cf. JENNY.)
1. Mining. A stationary engine used to let down or draw up trucks on an inclined plane; also = jinny-road, a self-acting inclined plane; = JIG 6 d.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Jinny-road. A gravity plane underground.
1888. Sheffield Gloss., Ginny, an engine by means of which a load is let down an inclined plane. A term used in coal-mining.
1891. Labour Commission Gloss., Jinny, a self-acting incline where the full tubs of coal pull the empty ones up.
2. A name given in Long Island, U.S., to a bird, Strepsilas interpres, the Turnstone.
1888. G. Trumbull, Names & Portr. Birds, 186. At Moriches, Maggot-snipe; at Amityville, Jinny.
