Crossword-Solution: JIG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jig | n. | A light, brisk musical movement. |
| Jig | n. | A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad. |
| Jig | n. | A piece of sport; a trick; a prank. |
| Jig | n. | A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached. |
| Jig | n. | A small machine or handy tool |
| Jig | n. | A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing. |
| Jig | n. | An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore. |
| Jig | v. t. | To sing to the tune of a jig. |
| Jig | v. t. | To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. |
| Jig | v. t. | To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n. |
| Jig | n. | To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine. |
| Jig | v. i. | To dance a jig; to skip about. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| JIG | anagram | GIJ |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENARCO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with JIG (5)
Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark’s fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
What made the shadows dance that madcap jig? He clutched the candle, steered his way to bed, And in a trice was sleeping like the dead.
Interpreters of the Land "HE'S FOR A JIG or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps." Thought employs ideas, but having an idea is not the same thing as thinking.
And so his lip quivered as he sang:-- “Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne! Ah! doux échos, entendez mes soupirs; En languissant je vais bientôt mouir!” We had need of gayety after that, and so Bill Cowan sang “Billy of the Wild Wood,” and Terence McCann wailed an Irish jig, stamping the water out of the spongy ground amidst storms of mirth.
She had seen him swilling the decks, she had seen him dancing a jig, she had seen him going round the main deck on all fours with Dick on his back, but she had never seen him going on like this before.
Quotes with JIG (3)
They were all fitting into place, the jig-saw pieces. The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Frank's odd manner when I spoke about Rebecca. Beatrice and her rather diffident negative attitude. The silence that I had always taken for sympathy and regret was a silence born of shame and embarrassment. It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the wor…
She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" "Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. "Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?" She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. "Who's to say what's real or not?" "Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. "Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In…
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 95 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).