To jerk; shake.
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The penetrating flea of the West Indies: same as chigoe.
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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.
To pull (a log) by horsepower over a level place in a slide.
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An illicit still.
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A leaded hook or gang of hooks used without bait for catching fish by jigging. see jig, 6 .
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A machine used for dyeing cloth. See jig-dyer.
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In golf, a club with an iron head, between a mashy and a mid-iron, used for approaching.
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In wireless telegraphy, a small transformer used for regulating and maintaining the difference of potential between the terminals of a coherer.
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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.
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One who or that which jigs.
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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.
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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.
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A small roller used in graining leather.
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A templet or profile for giving the form to a pottery vessel as it revolves upon the wheel.
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A potters' wheel when used for simple and rapidly made objects, as plain cylindrical vessels and the like.
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A coopers' draw-knife
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A warehouse-crane.
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In coal-mining, a coupling-hook for connecting the cars or trams on an incline.
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In billiards, a rest for the cue in making a difficult or awkward shot; a bridge.
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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.
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A door.
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A small tackle composed of a double and single block and a fall, used about the decks of a ship for various purposes.
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A sloop-rigged boat at one time used very extensively by the fishermen about Cape Cod, but superseded about 1829 by the dory.
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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.
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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.
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A drink of whisky.