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Bible Encyclopedias
Jerry
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a short form of the name Jeremiah, applied to various common objects, and more particularly to a machine for finishing cloth. The expression "jerry-built" is applied to houses built badly and of inferior materials, and run up by a speculative builder. There seems to be no foundation for the assertion that this expression was occasioned by the work of a firm of Liverpool builders named Jerry.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jerry'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jerry.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jerry'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jerry.html. 1910.
