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Gig   /gɪg/   Listen
Gig

noun
1.
Long and light rowing boat; especially for racing.
2.
An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.  Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear.
3.
A cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting.
4.
Tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain.
5.
Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood.
6.
A booking for musicians.



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"Gig" Quotes from Famous Books



... square in which his church stood he passed a smart gig at the door of a public-house that occupied the corner of a street. The publican in holiday clothes was stepping up to the driver's seat, and a young soldier, smoking a cigarette, was taking the place by his side. "Morning, Father, can you tip us ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... wagons are used, the carriole and the stolkjaerre. The carriole resembles an American sulky, except that it is springless, and nearly the entire weight is forward of the axle. It is a two-wheeled gig with the body shaped like the bowl of a spoon. The seat, in front of the axletree, is fastened by cross-pieces to the long, slender shafts that project behind and provide a place for light luggage and a seat ...
— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough
... to me whether I would or not," was the unembarrassed reply. "One of our graduates went to Chicago, and has a nice practice there. I don't know where I shall go. It would mortify mother dreadfully to have me driving about Philadelphia in a doctor's gig." ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 3. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... refined dwelling-house until she took up her abode in old-fashioned Sleepy Hollow. Flower had taken a great fancy to Helen, and she already warmly loved Dr. Maybright. She was wandering over the moor now, a miserable, storm-tossed little personage, when she saw his old-fashioned gig and white pony "Rowney" approaching. That old gig and the person who sat in it—for Dr. Maybright drove himself—began to act on the heart of the child with a curious magnetic force. Step by step they caused her to turn, until she reached Troublous Times Castle almost ...
— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade
... as the two men got into the gig, and, as it passed down through the gate, she hurried out upon the terrace, from whence she could see it for a few yards down the lane. Then she ran from the terrace to the gate, and, hurrying through the gate, made her way into ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope


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