Crossword-Solution: JIGGER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jigger | n. | A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe. |
| Jigger | n. & v. | One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging. |
| Jigger | n. & v. | A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel. |
| Jigger | n. & v. | A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel. |
| Jigger | n. & v. | A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle. |
| Jigger | n. & v. | A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. |
| Jigger | n. & v. | A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b). |
| Jigger | n. | A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i). |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with JIGGER (5)
Hear him: Having hove short, cast off the gaskets, and made the bunt of each sail fast by the jigger, with a man on each yard, at the word the whole canvas of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and cat-headed, and the ship under headway.
Which we soon found out the secret of old Daddy Withers's life--that there innocent-looking old jigger was a poet.
Having hove short, cast off the gaskets, and made the bunt of each sail fast by the jigger, with a man on each yard; at the word, the whole canvas of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible, everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and catheaded, and the ship under headway.
What do you make it, Gaud? “No, it isn't,” he went on, with sudden discouragement; “we've made a mistake again, the boom isn't the same, and ours has a jigger sail.
How could I funk in the face of their weakness—I, who lived aft in the high place? Margaret did not disdain the aid of my hand as she climbed upon the pin-rail at the foot of the weather jigger-rigging.
Quotes with JIGGER (2)
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound volunta…
I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).