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noun
Jigger  n.  
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.
(Pottery)
(a)
A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
(b)
A template or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
3.
(Naut.)
(a)
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.
(b)
A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. (New Eng.)
(c)
A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).
4.
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).
5.
A small glass or measuring vessel holding 1½ ounces (45 ml), used mostly for measuring liquor or drinking whiskey; also, the quantity of liquid held in a jigger.
6.
A thingamajig. (Colloq.)
Jigger mast. (Naut.)
(a)
The after mast of a four-masted vessel.
(b)
The small mast set at the stern of a yawl-rigged boat.





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"Jigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... art which was in a very rudimentary state at the middle of the nineteenth century, when the great discoveries of gold, silver and other metals began to influence the world's markets in so striking a manner. The ancients used the jigger in the form of a wicker basket filled with crushed ore and jerked by hand up and down in water for the purpose of causing the lighter parts to rise to the top, while the more valuable portions made ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland
... them in lieu of the peck of meal; and fresh beef, mutton or pork, at increased weights, were to be substituted for the salt pork from time to time. The ditchers and drivers were to have extra allowances in meat and molasses. Furthermore, "Each ditcher receives every night, when ditching, a dram (jigger) consisting of two-thirds whiskey and one-third water, with as much asafoetida as it will absorb, and several strings of red peppers added in the barrel. The dram is a large wine-glass full. In cotton picking time when sickness begins to be prevalent, every field hand ...
— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips


Words linked to "Jigger" :   harvest mite, pony, mast, Trombicula, redbug, chigger, genus Trombicula, jiggermast, glass


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