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▪ I. jigging, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɪgɪŋ|
[f. jig v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb jig.
1. a. The dancing of jigs; light, rapid, jerky movement, etc.: see jig v. 1, 2.
1641Milton Reform. ii. Wks. (1851) 48 That men should bee..pusht forward to gaming, jigging, wassailing, and mixt dancing is a horror to think. 1668G. Etherege She Would if She Could iii. i. Wks. (1888) 164 The natural inclination they have to jigging will make them very ready to comply. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (ed. 3) II. 207 Suggesting that such jigging and romping was inconsistent with the elegance that should distinguish the amusements of the higher orders. 1849Thackeray Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1887) I. 681/1, I..go out feeling deucedly lonely in the midst of the racketting and jigging.
b. Of a fish: = jiggering: see jigger v.1
1886H. P. Wells Amer. Salmon Fisherman 152 Of all the performances of the salmon, none demoralizes me like jigging..a series of short heavy jerks to the line at intervals of 3 or 4 seconds.
2. In technical senses: see jig v. 5–9.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. Gloss., Jigging, is a method of dressing the smaller Copper and Lead Ores by a peculiar motion of a wire sieve in a kieve or vat of water, where the smallest particles pass through the Jigging-sieve. 1865Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 5 Machinery..has already been designed to execute one part of potters' work, jigging. 1884Weekly Scotsman 23 Feb. 1/6 The method of capturing them is known as jigging, the jigger consisting of a number of hooks radiating from a fixed center of lead. 1903W. H. Van Dervoort Mod. Machine Shop Tools xxvii. 410 No class of work in the manufacturing shop presents as many possibilities for jigging as does the work handled in the drilling machine. 1945Lea & Simons Machining of Steel xii. 107 A fraction of a minute per part saved in large-scale production by better jigging soon outweighs any appreciable resultant increase in the cost of the jig.
3. attrib. and Comb., as jigging-party (dial.), a dancing-party; jigging-machine, a machine for jigging (usually in sense 5 of the verb: = jigger n.1 3 b); jigging-sieve, a sieve for jigging ore: see sense 2 above, quot. 1778.
1872T. Hardy Under Greenw. Tree vii, [On Christmas-day night] a jigging party looks suspicious. 1884West. Morn. News 30 Aug. 1/6 Crusher, jigging machine and jiggers. 1890Melbourne Argus 29 May 9/8, I recommend that some jigging machinery be put up at once, to concentrate ore now at grass for smelting.
▪ II. jigging, ppl. a.|ˈdʒɪgɪŋ|
[f. jig v. + -ing2.]
That jigs, in various senses (see jig v.); dancing jigs, moving jerkily; singing, playing, or composing jigs; of the style of a jig (see jig n.1 1–3).
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. Prol., Jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits. 1592Chettle Kinde-Harts Dr. (1841) 16 Men brought vppe to an honest handicraft, of which the realme more need then iygging vanities. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iv. iii. 137 What should the Warres do with these Iigging Fooles? 1629Davenant Albovine v. Dram. Wks. 1872 I. 94 Leave off your jigging motion when you mix Yourselves in a salute. 1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 119 One of the leaders then burst out into a hymn to a jigging sort of tune. 1862Thackeray Four Georges ii. 85 Never was such a brilliant, jigging, smirking Vanity Fair. |