Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.
A Jim Crow audience
From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.
… flying cannon equipped Spitfires V’s mainly on ‘Jim Crow’ operations (operational Patrols along the home coastline intercepting any hostile aircraft and looking out for any invasion forces).2008, Simon Muggleton, The Battle of Britain Monument in London:
Two other machines exhibited by Whitworth… One was furnished with a reversing tool to plane both ways, and called, from its peculiar motion, a Jim Crow machine.1852, Charles Tomlinson (editor), Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, volume 1, section xiv “Machinery Exhibited”, page cxliii
He has considerably improved upon the planing machine, in his “Jim Crow” machine, so called because the cutter reverses itself and works both ways, and in fact adapts itself to any position to do its work.1864, February 6, Once a Week, volume 10, article “Machine Tool-Makers”, page 188
The “Jim Crow” machine, which is Whitworth's patent, was new to some of the visitors. … But with a “Jim Crow” a cut is obtained both ways.1872, August 2, The Building News and Engineering Journal, article “Railway Works at Longhedge”, volume 23, page 77
It is placed on the rail pretty much as a jim-crow is set, and as the middle roll is turned it travels along on the rail, curving the rail as it moves.1899, W. A. Smith, Railway Review, volume 39, page 16:
Quelling his nerves, Moist grabbed a jim crow and opened the trap door on to the roof of the guard's van, to the initial amazement of the grag who had been trying to force his way in.2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 345–346:
When rails have to be bent with a Jim Crow, as in setting stock or check-rails, or straightening a bent rail, they should always be heated first, or they are liable to crack, especially steel rails.1886, The Railway Engineer, volume 7, page 207:
From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.
Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?2024 February 26, Courtney Kube, Marlene Lenthang, Corky Siemaszko, quoting Aaron Bushnell, “U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C. has died”, in NBC News:
Texas stands for segregation—for Jim Crow cars, for eating in separate restaurants, for sitting in separate rail coaches, for doing all the things which make white and black people in the United States realise how different they are.1950 February, Leonard Lindsay, in John O'London's Weekly, “The Jim Crow Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 126:
From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.
The American Bowling Congress’ 50-odd years of jimcrowing went by the boards during their convention in May which carried a motion to delete the "white males only" clause from their constitution.1950, Editors, “"Important Briefs"”, in Interracial News Service, page 1:
It is not only the students who are jimcrowed in the South. And it is not only the students who are protesting.1960, Editors, “Atlanta Math Teachers Refuse to be Jimcrowed”, in Workers World, page 1:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Crows | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| Jim Crowed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| Jim Crowed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| jimcrow | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Jim Crowing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |