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noun
A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 11⁄2 fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A measure of 11⁄2 fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A drink of whiskey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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noun
The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pottery
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noun
A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles
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noun
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A bicycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, slang
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noun
An automobile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, slang
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noun
A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A warehouse crane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A jiggermast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand
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noun
A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, horse-racing, horseracing, horses, lifestyle, pets, racing, sports
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noun
A streetcar drawn by a single horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A kind of early electric cash register.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
Topics: geography, natural-sciences, surveying
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noun
A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A prison; a jail cell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
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noun
An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, dialectal
Qualifier: Liverpool
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noun
The penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, euphemistic, slang
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noun
A vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, slang
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noun
A door.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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noun
An illegal distillery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
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verb
To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To use a jigger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: pottery
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verb
To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To imprison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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verb
To confound; to damn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
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noun
larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: harvest mite, chigger, redbug
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Broader terms: trombiculid
noun
any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jiggermast
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Broader terms: mast
noun
a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shot glass, pony
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Broader terms: glass, drinking glass
History
From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”), for which see modern German Geige.
Likely a corruption of chigoe. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Wolof jiga (“insect”).
A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as Etymology 1, above.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
