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noun

Jigging n. (Mining) 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.

Jigging machine.

(a)

(Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging.

(b)

(Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a template by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.

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Etymology of 'Jigging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jigging" Quotes from Famous Books

... the screeching, dancing, jigging, fighting youths, quickening his steps into a run, and his friends followed at his heels. As he did so he heard the loud and discordant jangle of ...

— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish

... the only way in which particles of different specific gravity can he separated from each other by motion only. If a rapid "jigging" or up-and-down motion be given to a mixture of such particles, the tendency of the lighter to fly further under the action of the impulse causes them gradually to rise to the upper surface; this surface being free in the present case, and the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 • Various

... held no charm for Madam Stewart. She was too intent upon "that child's mad, hoydenish riding. Good heavens, if such were ever seen in New York," New York with its automaton figures jigging up and down in the English fashion through Central Park being her criterion for the ...

— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... feet and stepped from behind a clump of arid sage-coloured bushes, stood for a moment with the sun glinting on his gun-barrel, and at a sign from the girl dropped back upon his post. Just then, or a moment later, my ears caught the jigging notes of a flute; whereby I knew Mr. Badcock to be close at hand, for it was discoursing the tune of "The ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... your Jack is gone, You'll think of naught but jigging, And you will sport your rigging on, While Jack is on ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 10, Issue 285, December 1, 1827 • Various

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