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▪ I. jig, n.1|dʒɪg|
Forms: 6 Sc. ieig, 6–7 iyg, iigge, iygge, gigge, 7 gig, ijgge, 7–8 jigg, 7– jig.
[Origin uncertain. Often assumed to be identical with OF. gigue a kind of stringed instrument, a rude fiddle, It. and Sp. giga, MHG. gîge, Ger. geige; but as to this there are difficulties: the OF. word had none of the senses of jig, it was also obs. long before jig is known to have existed; moreover, mod.F. gigue the dance, and dance tune (exemplified 1680) is not a continuation of OF. gigue, but is said by Darmesteter to have been simply adopted from Eng. jig. In this uncertainty as to the origin and history of the word, the order of senses here presented is provisional; those in 6 are in part directly from the stem of jig v.
Apparently the only way in which jig could be connected with OF. gigue, would be its formation from jig v., the derivation of the latter from F. giguer, ginguer ‘to leap, frolic, gambol’, and the formation of this from OF. gigue. But not one of these steps is certain: in particular the senses and chronology of jig v. offer difficulties.]
1. a. A lively, rapid, springy kind of dance. Freq. as Irish jig (also v. intr.).
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 58 Sum luvis, new cum to toun, With jeigis to mak thame joly; Sum luvis dance vp and doun, To meiss thair malancoly. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie x, The Orbes celestiall Will daunce Kemps Iigge. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 78 Wooing..is hot and hasty like a Scotch ijgge (and full as fantasticall). 1624Bp. Hall Serm. Hampton Crt. Sept., Surely jiggs at a Funeral..are things prodigiously unseasonable. 1634Milton Comus 952 All the swains that there abide With jigs and rural dance resort. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. 21 When the company are pretty well tired with country dances, it is usual to dance jiggs. 1780A. Young Tour in Ireland ii. xvii. 75 The irish jig, which they can dance with a most luxuriant expression. 1843Lever J. Hinton xvii. (1878) 124 The whole party would take hands and dance round the table to the measure of an Irish jig. 1919[see fox-trot v.].
†b. St. Vitus's jig: St. Vitus's dance, chorea.
1702E. Baynard Cold Baths ii. (1709) 377 A Youth that had lost the use of his Limbs by a sort of a Chorea sancti Viti (called Saint Vitus's Jigg).
c. [f. jig v.] Fidgety movement: in phr. on the jig. (colloq.)
1881Jefferies Wood Magic I. ii. 25 The sight of the white steam, and the humming of the fly-wheel, always set Bevis ‘on the jig’, as the village folk called it, to get to the machinery.
2. The music for such a dance; a rapid lively dance-tune; spec. one in triple rhythm (usually 6–8 or 12–8) used as the last movement of a suite (oftener in the Fr. form gigue or It. giga).
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 168 To see great Hercules whipping a Gigge, And profound Salomon tuning a lygge. 1593Donne Sat. iv. 147 As fidlers still, Though they be paid to be gone, yet needs will Thrust one more iig upon you. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iii, The sound of those Gigges and Hornpipes. 1649Lovelace Poems (1864) 128 In the same key with monkeys jiggs Or dirges of proscribed piggs. 1674Playford Skill Mus. Pref. 9 Our late solemn Musick is now justled out of esteem by the new Corants and Jigs of Foreigners. 1747H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 177 They sing to jigs, and dance to church music. 1878Browning Poets Croisic cxix, What some player-prig Means for a grave tune though it proves a jig.
†3. A song or ballad of lively, jocular, or mocking (often scurrilous) character. (In 17th c. applied in mockery to metrical versions of the Psalms).
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 470 The Scottish Gigges and rymes were these, Long berdes hartles, Paynted hoodes, witles. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, ii. ii, The fleering Scots, To England's high disgrace, have made this jig; ‘Maids of England, sore may you mourn, For your lemans you have lost at Bannocksbourn, With a heave and a ho!’ 1611Florio, Chiarantana, a kinde of Caroll or song full of leapings like a Scotish gigge. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. v. ii. 322 In praise of him certaine jygges were made. 16..Roxb. Ball. II. 257 Man in Moon, In wine we call for bawdy jiggs, Catzoes, rumbillows, whirligigs. c1657Cent. Art. agst. Clergy in J. Walker Suffer. Clergy (1714) 82 The singing of Hopkins's Psalms, which he called Hopkins's jiggs. 1673R. Leigh Transp. Reh. 17 Having had our Geneva Jigg, let us advance.
†4. A light performance or entertainment of a lively or comical character, given at the end, or in an interval, of a play. Obs.
Perhaps originally mainly consisting of song and dance (quot. 1632), but evidently sometimes of the nature of a farce.
a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. Interl., Here see I good fond actions in thy jig. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 522 He's for a Iigge, or a tale of Baudry. 1611Cotgr., Farce,..the Iyg at the end of an Enterlude, wherein some pretie knauerie is acted. 1632D. Lupton Lond. & Countrey xx, Most commonly when the play is done, you shal haue a Iigge or dance of all trads, they mean to put their legs to it, as well as their tongs. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. iii. 187 Untill the sad Catastrophe shews the Play to be a jig, all mockery and mirth. 1700Playhouse Advt. in Flying Post 4 July, Miss Evans's Jigg and Irish dance. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 238 A fire, a jigg, a battle, and a ball. 1864Shaw Hist. Eng. Lit. vi. (1875) 125 At the end of the piece, or occasionally perhaps between the acts, the clown or jester performed what was called a jig.
5. A piece of sport, a joke; a jesting matter, a trifle; a sportive trick or cheat. the jig is up (or over) = ‘the game is up’, it is all over. Now dial. or slang.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 38 Let not your shops be infected with anie such goose gyblets or stinking garbadge, as the Iygs of newsmongers. 1627E. F. Hist. Edw. II, (1680) 66 As with a Jigg of State might catch them naked. 1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (1672) 27 When the Major now perceived the Jig, and how Kitchinman had fooled him, he could have pulled the Hair off his Head. 1688Bunyan Jerus. Sinner Saved (1886) 103 By jiggs, and tricks, and quirks, which he helpeth them to. 1735Dyche, Jig,..an arch merry trick. 1777Maryland Jrnl. 17 June (Th.), Mr. John Miller came in and said, ‘The jig is over with us.’ 1800Aurora (Philadelphia) 17 Dec. (Th.), As the Baltimore paper says, ‘The Jigg's up, Paddy.’ 1848Jones Sk. Trav. 14 (Farmer), I know'd the jig was up. 1861Thackeray Four Georges iv. (1862) 224 Her jigs, and her junketings, and her tears. 1894Howells in Harper's Mag. Feb. 380 The die is cast, the jig is up, the fat's in the fire, the milk's spilt. 1923E. Wallace Missing Million xii. 100 It was almost like the last spiteful act of a man who knew the jig was up. 1961Wodehouse Service with a Smile (1962) ix. 134 You're in the soup, Miss Briggs. The gaff has been blown, and the jig is up. 1965New Yorker 18 Sept. 56 O.K., Frankie, the jig's up! 1974Nature 15 Feb. 420/3 The weight of opinion seems to be that the jig is up for the map's supporters.
6. a. A name variously applied in different trades to mechanical contrivances and simple machines for performing acts or processes, some of which arise directly from uses of jig v., while in others the sense is little more than ‘dodge’, ‘device’, ‘contrivance’: see the quots. spec. b. A machine or contrivance for jigging or dressing ore by shaking it up jerkily in a fluid medium (see jig v. 5) = jigger n.1 3 b. c. A contrivance of various kinds for catching fish: see quots., and cf. gig n.4 d. Coal-mining. A steep tramway on which the loaded trucks as they descend draw up the empty trucks by means of a cable passing round a drum or worked by wheels; also called jinny. e. A device for accurately guiding and positioning a drill or other tool in relation to the workpiece, or for positioning the parts of an object during assembly, and used when a large number of similar articles have to be made with high precision; = templet1 2 b. f. Dyeing = jigger n.1 5 n.
a.1875Knight Dict. Mech., Jig. i. A handy tool. The name is applied to various devices, and in many trades small and simple machines are called jigs. In the armorer's set of tools we find cited,—Drilling-jig. Filing-jig. Milling-jig. Shaving-jig. Tapping-jig. 1881Greener Gun 432 By means of jigs, callipers, and other tools the exact size of the stock and its angle with the barrel is obtained.
b.1849Ex. Doc. 31st U.S. Congress 1 Sess. House No. 5. iii. 479 Assay and analysis of the washed metals from the jigs at the Boston and Pittsburg Company's mine. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 424 No principle has yet been discovered which is better adapted to the separation of minerals than the intermittent and impulsive action of some fluid medium on the crushed ore. The best results thus far obtained are from machines known as ‘jigs’, which employ the above principle. 1953F. B. Michell in Symposium Recent Devel. Mineral Dressing (Inst. Mining & Metall.) 263 The jig is by no means obsolete and in the United States, indeed, it is finding increased use for the treatment of those fractions which are too fine for economical concentration by dense media.
c.1846Knickerbocker XXVII. 513 See that your jigs are in perfect order, for if we do get hold of 'em, our lines and hooks will have to take it, I guess, for a spell. 1858N.Y. Tribune 22 July (Bartlett), A long, stout line, at the end of which was a shining, spoon-shaped piece of pewter, terminated by a large hook. This apparatus he called a jig. 1873Forest & Stream 2 Oct. 122 The Shoals are fished with a ‘jig’, a three-pronged harpoon, fastened to a long wooden handle. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 195 Jigs and drails for the capture of cod,..mackerel jigs formerly extensively used. 1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 145 Every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 258/1 Harry..leaned over to watch critically the action of the bone jigs, as they played in the water. They darted from side to side without whirling, thus closely imitating a wounded fish.
d.1866Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 6/3 The spot where it was ignited was shown to be the first level on the north side near the top of the jig. 1893Labour Commission Gloss., Jigs, term used in North Staffordshire in the steep measures to describe the road down which the trams are sent, the full trams pulling the empty ones up.
e.1894W. L. Lineham Text-bk. Mech. Engin. vi. 274 Jigs are an extension of the template principle. Instead of thin plates, castings of an inch or so in thickness are used, supplied with holes where needed, the object being to guide the drill to its proper place on the work without the necessity of lining-out. 1903W. H. Van Dervoort Mod. Machine Shop Tools xxvii. 410 Jigs are manufacturing tools of, as a rule, high first cost and their economy depends very largely on the number of pieces to be drilled. 1912R. W. A. Brewer Motor Car Construction ii. 13 Modern competition has made jig work absolutely essential. 1942B. A. Shields Princ. Flight iii. 91 The airplane fuselage is built in a jig. 1947Bryant & Dickinson Jigs & Fixtures for Mass Production i. 4 In the machine shop, a jig is usually an appliance which guides a cutting tool... In the automotive industry, a jig is a work-holding device wherein all positions for assembly or fabrication operations are prelocated. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iv. 127 (caption) Assembling a large post insulator in a jig.
f.1942Whittaker & Wilcock Dyeing with Coal-Tar Dyestuffs (ed. 4) iv. 67 The jig or jigger is a machine designed for dyeing piece goods at full width. 1963Meitner & Kertess tr. Schmidlin's Preparation & Dyeing Synthetic Fibres xii. 108 High-temperature pressure jigs are mainly used for heavier fabrics.
7. Applied ludicrously to a horse, a person, etc. colloq.
1706Wooden World Diss. (1708) 54 Up he [a sailor] hoists himself a Trip upon his Jig of a Horse, and sticks as close..as if he was got cross a Yard-arm. 1781Bentham Wks. (1843) X. 103 This Lord and Lady Tracton are the queerest jigs you ever saw.
8. Comb., as (senses 1–4) jig-dancer, jig-given adj., jig-like adj., jig-maker; jig-backed a., having a twist in the back; jig borer, (a) a machine for drilling holes in or machining the surfaces of a component (esp. a jig (sense 6 e)), usually having a vertical spindle mounted above a table which can be accurately positioned relative to the spindle; (b) (see quot. 1972); so jig-boring vbl. n.; hence (as a back-formation) jig-bore v. trans., to drill (a hole) by means of a jig borer; jig box, the box or sieve of a jig (sense 6 b); jig-brow (Coal-mining), an underground incline on which a jig or jinny (see 6 d) works, also called jinny-road; jig button, a steel bush used for accurate positioning of a jig plate when making jigs on a lathe; jig-chain (see quot.); jig-clog, a clog worn in dancing a jig; jigman, one who works an ore-dressing jigger; jig-mould, a mould into which melted lead is poured to form the shank of a jig (sense 6 c); jig-pin, ‘a pin used by miners to hold the turn-beams, and prevent them from turning’ (Webster, 1828); jig plate, (a part of) a jig consisting of a steel plate which carries the bushes which guide the drill; jig-time, colloq. (chiefly U.S.) in phrase in jig-time expressing a very short space of time. See also jig-saw.
1821Sporting Mag. VIII. 262 It was discovered that, from a wrench, she [a mare] was also *jig-backed.
1939C. B. Cole Tool Making 258 The bushing plate is made from cold-rolled steel, and this is laid out carefully and the hole *jig-bored for the drill bushing. 1967A. J. Lissaman Metrology vi. 71 The holes in the plate would be jig-bored prior to the fitting of the bushes and the centre distances would need to be checked, both after jig-boring, and after the fitting of the drill bushes.
1932Gwiazdowski & Lord Econ. Tool Engin. xiii. 189 A Swiss firm..developed a large *jig borer that derives its accuracy from its lead screws. 1941W. C. Durney Machine Shop Pract. v. 149 In the majority of modern engineering establishments, manufacturing jigs and fixtures in any quantity, these pieces of vital auxiliary apparatus are usually machined up in jig borers. 1959Times 5 Oct. (Switzerland Suppl.) p. vii/3 Over one thousand sip jig-borers are installed in the United Kingdom to-day. 1972Classification of Occupations & Directory Occupational Titles (Department of Employment) III. 290/2 Jig borer, [one who] sets up and operates a jig boring machine to drill and bore holes in workpieces to extra fine limits of accuracy.
1932Gwiazdowski & Lord Econ. Tool Engin. xiii. 183 (heading) *Jig-boring methods. 1935H. J. Davies Precision Workshop Methods vii. 115 A large proportion of the time occupied in jig-boring..is taken up in the initial setting up of the discs or buttons on the work. 1970W. J. Patton Mod. Manuf. vii. 157 Jig-boring machines are not production machines but toolmaking equipment for the accurate location and drilling of holes.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 371/2 The pulsating current is obtained by placing a vertical longitudinal partition..extending part of the way down to the bottom of the *jig box. 1951A. F. Taggart Elem. Ore Dressing x. 190 The supporting reactions of the relatively rigid screen and sidewalls of the jig box are familiar.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Jig-brow. 1900Daily News 11 Jan. 7/3 Then we went to the face, up some of the ‘jig brows’, the roads running off at right angles from this pony track. 1877*Jig-brow [see dip n. 5 b].
1932Gwiazdowski & Lord Econ. Tool Engin. xiii. 184 (caption) Toolmaker's *jig buttons. 1964S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes v. 134 Fig. 19 (a) shows a sectional view of a jig-button, a small cylindrical steel bush accurately ground on the circumference and end faces, the hole being about 1/8 inch larger in diameter than the retaining screw. These buttons can be set by end measurement.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Jig-chain, a chain hooked to the back of a skip and running round a post, to prevent its too rapid descent on an inclined plane.
1897Daily News 5 Feb. 9/5 A card, on which he was described as ‘the champion clog and *jig dancer’.
1611B. Jonson Catiline Ded., Posterity..shall know, that you dare, in these *jig-given times, to countenance a legitimate Poem.
1835Court Mag. VI. 24/2 It is a *jig-like sort of tune. 1899Daily News 20 Apr. 5/3 With the exception of a jig-like presto,..the Fantasia is less remarkable for idea or effect than for skilful instrumentation.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 131 Oh God, your onely *Iigge-maker: what should a man do, but be merrie. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. ii. i, Petrarch was a dunce, Dante a jigmaker.
1849Ex. Doc. 31st U.S. Congress 1 Sess. House No. 5 iii. 469 The heavier metals are thrown out to be farther cleansed by the *Jigmen. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) 18/1 Jigger, jigman; controls by levers and generally attends to jig, i.e., water concentration machine used to separate larger portions of ore from rock, stones, etc., with which it is found. 1929F. H. Rolt Gauges & Fine Measurement II. vi. 108 Three discs are..attached to the *jig plate by screws passing through loosely fitting holes. 1970W. J. Patton Mod. Manuf. v. 79 Drill bushings are inserted into a jig plate and used to guide the drill bit.
1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 314 Kate has about four more of 'em licked to a standstill in *jigtime. 1922Joyce Ulysses 313 Confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime. 1947S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! (1949) x. 123 We completed the return journey in jig time; some mysterious metamorphosis..had endowed me with the agility of a lizard. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xiv. 100 Then he gets it out of his possession in jig-time. 1968L. W. Robinson Assassin (1969) xvi. 203 If I was you, I'd see Gracie Hutchinson... She'd solve your problem in jig time.
▪ II. jig, n.2 U.S. coarse slang.|dʒɪg|
Also jigg(s.
[Origin unknown, but perhaps the same word as prec.]
A Black person, a Negro.
Like jigaboo, a term that gives offence.
1924F. J. Wilstach Slang Dict. Stage (Typescript in N.Y. Public Libr.), Jiggs, Negro actor. 1927K. Nicholson Barker iii. i. 128 You go along and give 'em a hand, too. Nat Brody's there and a crew of jigs. 1931Amer. Mercury Nov. 352/2 Jig, a Negro.—Jigband, the sideshow band. 1932J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iii. 113 Janitor's jobs were for jiggs, and Hunkies, and Polacks, anyway. 1933Fortune Aug. 47/1 A couple of jigs got on the bus with a doghouse. 1935E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) ii. vi. 163 This jig we call Othello falls in love with this girl. 1939New Yorker 7 Oct. 22/3 He said if a jig band..could be a big success in Paris why not a fellow like you. Ibid., They even made this jig a liutenant [sic]. 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime (1958) i. 23 Tom Ireland recalls that up to that time ragtime piano was called ‘jig piano’, and the syncopating bands, like Joplin's were called ‘jig bands’. This term, taken from jig dances, even came a little later to be a designation for the Negro himself. 1969S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiii. 116, I don't have to worry about no jig lieutenants! 1972‘H. Howard’ Epitaph for Joanna iv. 51 The photograph..showed..a Negro orchestra... I'd never seen the jig band before.
▪ III. jig, v.|dʒɪg|
Also 7 gig, (gidge).
[Closely related to jig n.1 (q.v.), but not known so early. In some senses it aproaches obs. F. giguer (15th c.) to gambol, freak, sport, nasalized ginguer to leap, kick, wanton (which is app. not related to OF. gigue); but this resemblance may be merely accidental, or due to parallel onomatopœic influence, the large number of words into which jig- enters indicating that it has been felt to be a natural expression of a jerking or alternating motion. See the words following, and cf. fig, frig. Some of the senses evidently arose independently from jig n.1, and the historical order of the whole is unascertained.]
1. a. trans. To sing or play as a jig, or in the style of a jig (see jig n.1 2, 3). ? Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 11 To Iigge off a tune at the tongues end, canarie to it with the feete, humour it with turning vp your eie. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. iii. i, Make thy moan to ballad-singers and rhymers; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes.
b. trans. To dance (a jig or other lively dance).
1719D'Urfey Pills IV. 100 We Jig the Morris upon the Green. 1802Mrs. J. West Infidel Father III. 151 A gentleman..jigged country dances the same evening for six hours. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. iv, While this brave Carmagnole-dance has hardly jigged itself out.
c. intr. To dance a jig; to dance in a rapid, jerky, lively fashion. Also to jig it.
1672Maypole Dance in Westminster Drollery ii. 80 For Willy has gotten his Jill, And Johnny has got his Joan, To jig it, jig it, jig it, jig it, Jig it up and down! 1713Steele Guardian No. 147 ⁋2 The bride thoughtlessly jigging it about the room. 1764Foote Mayor of G. ii. Wks. 1799 I. 187 Are all the women engaged? why then my locum tenens and I will jig together. 1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. viii, I suppose you and I are to stand up and jig it together again. 1883Cornh. Mag. June 718 The country dances commenced, in which the beau monde..bobbed, capered, jigged and grinned.
d. (to jig it.) To play the fiddle briskly.
1780Mayne Siller Gun ii. xxiv, Jock Willison, a Sutor bred, Wha, for the fiddle, left his trade, Jigg'd it far better than he sped.
2. a. intr. To move up and down or to and fro with a rapid jerky motion; in quot. 1886 of a fish = jigger v.1
1604Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 150 (2nd Qo.) You gig [Fol. gidge] and amble, and you list, you nickname Gods creatures, and make your wantonnes ignorance. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 28 Phillis..Kept time with every thrilling Close, And jigg'd upon her seat. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xxx, The girls' feet were already jigging. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 121 His hands under his coat-tails, and his person jigging up and down upon his toes. 1886H. P. Wells Amer. Salmon Fisherman 160 He [a 32 lb. salmon] begins to jig—a series of short, heavy and sudden jerks.
b. trans. To move (any thing) with a light jerky motion; to jerk to and fro or up and down.
1710Duncay Gray in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Song (1875) 82, I maun sit the leelang day An' jeeg the cradle wi my tae. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 60 The rushing water..closing in on the rudder making it cheep as it was jigged from side to side with a buzzing gurgle. 1888Sci. Amer. 29 Dec. 403/2 When the carriage [of a sawmill] is to be jigged back, the lever manipulating the rock shaft is moved from the saw.
3. intr. To move in unison with; to agree, ‘jump’, chime with. rare.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 63 My manhood cannot to it stoop: It jigs not with my wants or wishes.
†4. trans. To put off with a trick (see jig n.1 5). Obs.
1633Ford Love's Sacr. iii. iii, Do not think the gloss Of smooth evasion..Shall jig me off; I'll know't, I vow I will.
5. To dress (ore) so as to separate the coarser and finer portions, by shaking it under water in a sieve or a box with perforated bottom, or by means of a machine operating in a similar way.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 235 This coarser size..is jigged pure and clean, if it be well given for Ore. Ibid. Gloss. s.v. Jigging, In the Lead Mines, the Jigged Ore goes by the name of Peasy. 1855Cornwall 228 The ores are now given to boys, who jig them, or shake them in a sieve under water, by which means the ore or heavy part keeps at the bottom, whilst the spar, or refuse, is scraped from the top. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 112 The best ore when so crushed is ready for sale, but the seconds has next to be ‘jigged’... The sieves are made to move up and down for a few minutes with a peculiar jerking motion while dipping in water.
6. a. To catch (a fish) by jerking a hook into its body; to catch with a jig (see jig n.1 6 c). b. intr. To fish with a jig.
1883C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer (rev. ed.) 243 Keep the line constantly in motion, and half the time you will ‘jig’ them in the belly, tail or side, as the finny mass moves over the hook.
7. To shape an earthen vessel with a jigger (see jigger n.1 5 a).
1865[see jigging vbl. n. 2].
8. In Well-boring, to bore with the aid of a spring-pole, which jerks up the rods and drill after the stroke. (U.S.)
9. trans. To provide or equip with jigs (sense 6 e). Also absol.
1900Machinery (N.Y.) Dec. 130/1 There are many other considerations..which cannot be overlooked when the question of ‘To jig or not to jig’ arises. 1927Observer 16 Oct. 26 A sound financial scheme always includes writing off the heavy cost of jigging and tooling up a factory to manufacture a given type during the first year of its production. 1957Times 23 Aug. 3/6 There was lying idle floor space jigged and tooled to produce six Britannia fuselages a month. |