jinny road
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare gin (“an engine”), ginny-carriage.
Noun edit
jinny road (plural jinny roads)
- (mining) An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones.[1]
References edit
- ^ 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.