Definition of Hargreaves

1. Noun. English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778).

Exact synonyms: James Hargreaves
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hargreaves

Harding
Hardon
Hardy
Hardy-Rand-Ritter test
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Hardy-Weinberg law
Hardyan
Hardyesque
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishnas
Haredi
Harezm
Hargeisa
Hargreaves (current term)
Hari
Harijan
Haripur
Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
Harkat ul-Ansar
Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
Harki
Harkis
Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlean Carpenter
Harlee
Harlem
Harlem Renaissance

Literary usage of Hargreaves

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"The bill then stated that in the month of November, 1847, the defendants G. Hargreaves, J. Hargreaves, and T. Platt stopped payment, and that in December, ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1864)
"Hargreaves, who first practically opened out the gold-mines of Australia, having been sent ... Mr. Hargreaves had sent home numerous specimens of the rocks. ..."

3. An Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Probate Registry by William Fergusson Irvine (1898)
"Hargreaves, John, of Roughton in Pendle, yeoman Hargreaves ... Lancaster, husbandman Hargreaves, Jonathan, of Hey wood, parish of Bury Hargreaves, ..."

4. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"The bill then stated that in the month of November, 1847, the ORE defendants G. Hargreaves, J. Hargreaves, and T. Platt stopped ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1864)
"Hargreaves, who first practically opened out the gold-mines of Australia, having been sent ... Mr. Hargreaves had sent home numerous specimens of the rocks. ..."

6. An Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Court of Probate by John Parsons Earwaker, Chester (England). Probate Court (1889)
"Admon Tuition Admon 1706 1718 1718 1717 1706 1719 1711 1711 Hargreaves, James, ... Admon with Inv 1708 Hargreaves, James, of Whaley, mercer 1716 Hargreaves, ..."

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