A tool consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, often with a small fissure on the curved end for removing nails.
1The superintendent gripped his jemmy tightly and turned towards the dirty stairs.
2Foyle had dropped his jemmy and his hand closed over his pistol.
3He didn't have time for subtlety; he'd just have to jemmy it open.
4He tossed the jemmy up to Coombes, and Coombes succeeded in catching it.
5His next action shows that the 'jemmy' is really a ruler.
6Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.
7Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.-S.H.
8I've seen the marks of a jemmy on the window-sill.
9You'd pull the wool over the eyes of a professional burglar, Koppy, while you stole his jemmy.
10Bring with you a jemmy, a
11Agostino and the boys donned black masks and prised open, or attempted to jemmy, doors using a chisel.
12How, then, did Barrow even manage to attempt to jemmy this drawer when the tool was nowhere near to hand?
13Other things than clothes found a place in its depths, among them a jemmy, some putty, and a glazier's diamond.
14If it were new it would seem like a playwright pandering to the moment: What's a jemmy compared to a share certificate?
15University, where furtive as hedgehogs, we found a hand-hold to jemmy open an illegal window, fossick the disused office for carton stacked upon
16Distance travelled by Jemmy and myself today twenty-six and a half miles.