Definition of "jim-crow" []

• For negroes only; set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination. (adjective)
• A machine for bending or straightening rails. (noun)
• A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Negro today is that the average white man expects him to "jump jim-crow" or do the buffoon act, whether in music or in other things."
• "Page 8 year 1904, in connection with the effort to introduce "disfranchisement" and "jim-crow" conditions into this State."
• "The camaradas, on the other hand, had jim-crow saddles and bridles, and rusty little iron stirrups into which they thrust their naked toes."