spinning jenny

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   an early spinning machine with multiple spindles

   Broaderspinning machine

Questions about spinning jenny

What does spinning jenny mean?

spinning jenny means "an early spinning machine with multiple spindles".

Is spinning jenny a common word?

spinning jenny is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.