JENNET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jennet mean? 

• JENNET (noun)
  The noun JENNET has 1 sense:

1. female donkey

  Familiarity information: JENNET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JENNET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Female donkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jennet; jenny; jenny ass

Hypernyms ("jennet" is a kind of...):

ass (hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse)

 Context examples 

There is my horse and my lady's jennet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One young knight on a gray jennet leaped over his fallen comrades and galloped swiftly up the hill, shrieking loudly upon Saint James, ere he fell within a spear-length of the English line, with the feathers of arrows thrusting out from every crevice and joint of his armor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced on that very evening that Sir Nigel Loring, having supped before sunset, as was his custom, and having himself seen that Pommers and Cadsand, his two war-horses, with the thirteen hacks, the five jennets, my lady's three palfreys, and the great dapple-gray roussin, had all their needs supplied, had taken his dogs for an evening breather.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)