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Crow, Jim
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[′jim ′krō] (design engineering)
A device with a heavy buttress screw thread used for bending rails by hand.
Jim Crow
Negro stereotype popularized by 19th-century minstrel shows. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 138]
See: Bigotry