n. One who or that which jigs.n. A small, light, or light-running mechanical contrivance or utensil, causing or having when in use a rapid jerky motion; also, by extension, any subordinate mechanical contrivance or convenience to which no more definite name is attached.n. A machine for hardening and condensing felt by repeated quick blows with rods, by the action of vibrating platens, or by intermittent rolling action on the material while warm and wet.n. A small roller used in graining leather.n. A templet or profile for giving the form to a pottery vessel as it revolves upon the wheel.n. A potters' wheel when used for simple and rapidly made objects, as plain cylindrical vessels and the like.n. A coopers' draw-knifen. A warehouse-crane.n. In coal-mining, a coupling-hook for connecting the cars or trams on an incline.n. In billiards, a rest for the cue in making a difficult or awkward shot; a bridge.n. A sort of small spanker-sail, set on a Jigger-mast in the stern of a canoe or other small craft, especially in Chesapeake Bay.n. A door.n. A small tackle composed of a double and single block and a fall, used about the decks of a ship for various purposes.n. A sloop-rigged boat at one time used very extensively by the fishermen about Cape Cod, but superseded about 1829 by the dory.n. A small street-railway car, drawn by one horse, and usually without a conductor, the driver giving change and the fare being deposited in a box.n. A machine now generally used in the produce exchanges of American cities, which exhibits on a conspicuous dial the prices at which sales are made as the transactions occur. The hand or pointer is controlled by electric mechanism connected with a keyboard.n. A drink of whisky.To jerk; shake.n. The penetrating flea of the West Indies: same as chigoe.n. In the United States, a name of sundry harvest-mites or harvest-ticks which, though normally plant-feeders, fasten to the skin of human beings and cause great irritation.n. n. An illicit still.n. A leaded hook or gang of hooks used without bait for catching fish by jigging. see jig, 6 .n. A machine used for dyeing cloth. See jig-dyer.n. In golf, a club with an iron head, between a mashy and a mid-iron, used for approaching.n. In wireless telegraphy, a small transformer used for regulating and maintaining the difference of potential between the terminals of a coherer.n. In the Royal Mint, a small weight which it is necessary, in certain cases, to add to a given number of coins to make an exact pound in weight.To pull (a log) by horsepower over a level place in a slide.
