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Definition of Jigger
1. Noun. A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey.
2. Noun. Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl.
3. Noun. Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.
Generic synonyms: Trombiculid
Group relationships: Genus Trombicula, Trombicula
Definition of Jigger
1. n. A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, or Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
2. n. One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.
3. n. Any one of several species of small red mites (esp. Tetranychus irritans and T. Americanus) which, in the larval or leptus stage, burrow beneath the skin of man and various animals, causing great annoyance.
4. v. t. To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
Definition of Jigger
1. Noun. A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce. ¹
2. Noun. One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging. ¹
3. Noun. The sieve used in jigging ore. ¹
4. Noun. A measure of 1 1/2 fluid ounces of liquor. ¹
5. Noun. (context: pottery) A device for producing flatware. ¹
6. Noun. (context: textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth. ¹
7. Noun. A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather. ¹
8. Noun. A sandflea, ''Tunga penetrans'', of the order Siphonaptera. ¹
9. Noun. (context: golf dated) A wooden or metal headed golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances. ¹
10. Noun. (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle. ¹
11. Noun. (nautical) The smallest mast on a ship. ¹
12. Noun. A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. ¹
13. Noun. A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes. It consists of a plank of wood with an arm on it with a sharp metal tooth on the end of the arm. A rope is tied to the arm which, when pulled, propels the plank along the underside of the ice because the tooth catches the ice. Releasing the rope allows the tooth to sink away from the ice, and when the rope is tightened again, the tooth grabs the ice farther along, allowing the jigger to crawl along the underside of the ice. ¹
14. Noun. (dialect Scouse) (dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses. ¹
15. Verb. To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended. ¹
16. Verb. (context: pottery) To use a jigger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jigger
1. to jerk up and down [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Jigger
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1. One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.
2. A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel. A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
3. A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle. A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
A supplementary sail. See Dandy, 2 .
4. A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 . Jigger mast.
The after mast of a four-masted vessel. The small mast set at the stern of a yawlrigged boat.
See: Jig, n. & v.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jigger
Literary usage of Jigger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hydraulics and Its Applications by Arnold Hartley Gibson (1919)
"EFFICIENCY OF THE HYDRAULIC jigger. The chain, or wire rope, and pulley multiplying
gear known as I hydraulic jigger which is used to multiply the motion of ..."
2. A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1881)
"All the labour required is to raise the deposited ore out of the jigger ...
At some mines, in addition to the jiggers, a rotating buddle or jigger, ..."
3. Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic Machinery by Henry Robinson (1904)
"MOVABLE jigger HOIST. A movable jigger hoist is shown by Plate 17. This machine
consists of a hydraulic cylinder A, with a ram B, and multiplying sheaves C ..."
4. A Treatise on Ore and Stone Mining by Clement le Neve Foster (1905)
"(/i) jigger or Jig.—The principal machine for concentrating particles varying in
size from 1 inch to .1g inch is the jigger The hand-jigger is merely a ..."
5. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... not hunt the animals—Birds—The Simian tribe—Reptiles and insects—The small
bees and the beetles—The " jigger "—Night disturbances by falling trees, &c. ..."
6. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Dermatophilus penetrans, L., 1758 (jigger, Chigoe). Syn. ... [The jigger is also
well known in the West Indies.—FVT] Genus. ..."
7. Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More by Charles Thomas Jacobi (1908)
"jigger FOR ODD SORTS. smaller the better, provided it is not too minute. ...
A handy article to hold these sorts temporarily is a jigger, made of quadrats ..."
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