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Definition of Jigging
1. n. The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.
Definition of Jigging
1. Verb. (present participle of jig) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jigging
1. jig [v] - See also: jig
Medical Definition of Jigging
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Jigging
Literary usage of Jigging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"The subject of jigging will be considered under two headings, bull jigging and
treatment on the Hancocks. Bull jigging.—There is no bull jigging practiced ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"Sizing Before jigging.—As the difference in specific gravity between anthracite
and the ... The jigging of anthracite is, therefore, a careful and expensive ..."
3. A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1886)
"jigging—The Different Specific Gravity of Different Mineral Substances, a reason
why they can be mechanically separated—Table of Rates at which various ..."
4. Machinery for Metalliferous Mines: A Practical Treatise for Mining Engineers by Edward Henry Davies (1894)
"Hand jigging—Primitive Jigger—Automatic jigging—Hartz Jigger Stroke — Speed and
... JIGGERS AND jigging.—The ore, after having been properly sized in the ..."
5. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1894)
"CLOSE SIZING BEFORE jigging! BY ROBERT H. RICHARDS, SB Received October 24, 1894.
THE extent to which sizing by sieves should be carried, as a preliminary ..."
6. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"The results of much suction, arranged in tabular form, showed that the tailings
from jigging minerals heavier than arsenopyrite were decidedly better than ..."
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