0 a short, strong metal bar with a curved end, often used to force things open, for example by thieves to force open windows or doors
1 to force a window or lock open with a jemmy
Do they bring a jemmy to force the lock?
It is nonsense to say that an article such as a pack of cards can be compared with a jemmy.
I remember a case in which the police swore that they had seen, in the middle of the night, two people dropping jemmies.
To-day, the motor car, stolen for the occasion, is as much the instrument of housebreaking as a jemmy.
What will happen if the official leaves his jemmy on the landing and the householder falls down the stairs?
It is precisely the same thing as handing back the jemmy to a burglar.
It will be rather like giving evidence about burglars' kit and omitting any mention of the jemmy.
The question is, was he going to use the jemmy and had he no authority to do so?
