单词 | jigging |
释义 | jiggingn. The action of jig v. 1. a. The dancing of jigs; light, rapid, jerky movement, etc.: see jig v. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [noun] > jig jigc1560 jigging1641 Red River jig1871 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down figging1577 jolting1648 jetting1676 jiggeting1687 jigging1806 bumping1842 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 61 That men should bee..push't forward to gaming, jigging, wassailing, and mixt dancing is a horror to think. 1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd iii. i. 36 The natural inclination they have to be Jigging, will make them very ready to comply. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. ix. 207 Suggesting that such jigging and romping was inconsistent with the elegance that should distinguish the amusements of the higher orders. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1887) 1 681/1 I..go out feeling deucedly lonely in the midst of the racketting and jigging. b. Of a fish: = jiggering n. and adj. at jigger v.1 Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > jerking on end of line jigging1886 1886 H. 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore > dressing ore puddlingc1585 vanning1671 jigging1778 ore-dressing1837 mineral dressing1931 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > specific processes fictilage1610 throwing1686 fritting1816 biscuiting1819 slapping1825 blunging1832 jigging1865 baking1868 bossinga1877 kaolinization1886 towing1892 jolleying1901 saggaring1901 mould-running1910 mullitization1939 double-dipping1940 Belgicization1942 prefiring1944 press-moulding1953 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > using number of hooks paternostering1859 jigging1884 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > guides > jig > providing with jigging1903 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 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. 1865 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 5 Machinery..has already been designed to execute one part of potters' work, jigging. 1884 Weekly 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. 1903 W. 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. 1913 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Appendix Jigging, the practice of tooling work held in jigs, adopted in the interchangeable system, when articles are tooled in quantities. 1945 F. C. Lea & E. N. 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. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as jigging-party n. dialect a dancing-party. jigging-machine n. a machine for jigging (usually in sense 5 of the verb: = jigger n.1 3b). jigging-sieve n. a sieve for jigging ore: see sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for dressing ore trunk1653 griddle1778 jigger1778 jigging-sieve1778 ore-dresser1811 jig1849 joggling-table1849 brake-sieve1881 jigging-machine1884 grid- society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > other balls or dances carolc1300 buttock-ball1698 redoubt1698 ridotto1708 race ball1770 county ball1771 dress ball?1772 promenade1778 waltz1802 hunt ball1807 dignity ball1834 ball-royala1843 polkery1845 jigging-party1872 prom1879 Cinderella dance1883 dinner dance1887 white ball1891 cotillion1898 taxi dance1910 Stampede Dance1950 go-go1965 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. i. vii. 92 [On Christmas-day night] a jigging party looks suspicious. 1884 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 1/6 Crusher, jigging machine and jiggers. 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 29 May 9/8 I recommend that some jigging machinery be put up at once, to concentrate ore now at grass for smelting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019). jiggingadj. 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). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down figging1577 jigging1590 jolting1598 jiggeting1687 jolty1835 jaggy1842 jiggety1876 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. Prol. sig. A3 From iygging vaines of riming mother wits. ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. C2v Men brought vppe to an honest handicraft, of which the realme more need then iygging vanities. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 189 What should the Warres do with these Iigging Fooles? View more context for this quotation 1629 W. Davenant Trag. Albovine v, in Dram. Wks. (1872) I. 94 Leave off your jigging motion when you mix Yourselves in a salute. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. I. 119 One of the leaders then burst out into a hymn to a jigging sort of tune. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii. 72 Never was such a brilliant, jigging, smirking Vanity Fair. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1641adj.1590 |
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