jigger

jig·ger ¹  (jgr)

n.

1. A person who jigs or operates a jig.

2.

a. A small measure for liquor, usually holding 1 ¹/₂ ounces.

b. This amount of liquor.

3. A device, such as a drill, that operates with a jerking or jolting motion.

4. Nautical

a. A light all-purpose tackle.

b. A small sail set in the stern of a yawl or similar boat.

c. A boat having such a sail.

d. A jigger mast.

5. Informal An article or a device, the name of which eludes one.

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jig·ger ²  (jgr)

n.

1. See chigger.

2. See chigoe.

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[Variant of chigger.]

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jigger¹

n

1. a person or thing that jigs

2. (Individual Sports & Recreations) Golf an iron, now obsolete, with a thin blade, used for hitting long shots from a bare lie

3. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) any of a number of mechanical devices having a vibratory or jerking motion

4. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a light lifting tackle used on ships

5. (Mathematics & Measurements / Units) a small glass, esp for whisky, with a capacity of about one and a half ounces

6. NZ a light hand- or power-propelled vehicle used on railway lines

7. (Engineering / General Engineering) Engineering a type of hydraulic lift in which a hydraulic ram operates the lift through a block and tackle which increases the length of the stroke

8. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Fishing) Canadian a device used when setting a gill net beneath ice

9. (Mining & Quarrying) Mining another word for jig [5]

10. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical short for jiggermast

11. (Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) Billiards another word for bridge¹ [10]

12. US and Canadian informal a device or thing the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten

13. Liverpool dialect an alleyway

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jigger², jigger flea [ˈdʒɪgə]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) other names for the chigoe [1]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	jigger - a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey shot glass, pony drinking glass, glass - a container for holding liquids while drinking
	2.	jigger - any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl jiggermast mast - a vertical spar for supporting sails
	3.	jigger - larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation harvest mite, redbug, chigger trombiculid - mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates genus Trombicula, Trombicula - type genus of the family Trombiculidae

Translations

jigger¹ [ˈdʒɪgəʳ] N

1. (= whisky measure) → medida f (de whisky )

2. (esp US) (= thingummy) → chisme m

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jigger² [ˈdʒɪgəʳ] N (Min) → criba f (Mech) → aparato m vibratorio

jigger

n

(= sieve) → Schüttelsieb nt

(US: = measure) Messbecher für Alkohol: 1½ Unzen

(= sandflea) → Sandfloh m