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jigger
n.
person who dances a jig; small sail (Nautical); small whiskey glass which holds 1.5 oz. (45 ml); tool used by shoemakers for setting and polishing stitches
Jigger
Jigger may refer to:
- Handcar, a hand-operated railway car, mostly used for maintenance
- Jigger (unit), a measure of alcoholic beverage ingredients
- Jigger (bartending) the tool used to measure out a jigger
- Jigger, a machine for the shaping of clay body into flatware by the differential rotation of a profile tool and mould
- Chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans, a tropical parasitic arthropod that can cause an inflammatory skin disease, tungiasis
- Jiggermast, the aftmost mast of a four-masted sailing ship
- Pallet jack, a tool used to lift and move pallets
- Ice jigger, a tool for setting fish nets under ice between two distant holes
- Jiggerpole, a very long fishing pole used with a very short and very heavy line
- Jigger, an obsolete golf club that was a very low lofted iron with a shortened shaft
jigger
Noun
1. a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
(synonym) shot glass, pony
(hypernym) glass, drinking glass
2. any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
(synonym) jiggermast
(hypernym) mast
3. larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
(synonym) harvest mite, chigger, redbug
(hypernym) trombiculiid
(member-holonym) Trombicula, genus Trombicula
Jigger
(n.)
A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
(n.)
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).
(n. & v.)
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.
(n. & v.)
A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
(n. & v.)
A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).
(n. & v.)
A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
(n. & v.)
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.
(n. & v.)
A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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