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Jig   /dʒɪg/   Listen
noun
Jig  n.  
1.
(Mus.) A light, brisk musical movement. "Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
2.
A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad. (Obs.) "A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme Praised and applauded."
3.
A piece of sport; a trick; a prank. (Obs.) "Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late Protector?"
4.
A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
5.
(Mach.)
(a)
A small machine or handy tool; esp.: (Metal Working) 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 template to work to, as in filing.
(b)
(Mining) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
Drill jig, a jig for guiding a drill. See Jig, 6 (a).
Jig drilling, Jig filing (Metal Working), a process of drilling or filing in which the action of the tool is directed or limited by a jig.
Jig saw, a sawing machine with a narrow, vertically reciprocating saw, used to cut curved and irregular lines, or ornamental patterns in openwork, a scroll saw; called also gig saw.


verb
Jig  v. t.  (past & past part. jigged; pres. part. jigging)  
1.
To sing to the tune of a jig. "Jig off a tune at the tongue's end."
2.
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
3.
(Mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
4.
(Metal Working) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.


Jig  v. i.  
1.
To dance a jig; to skip about. "You jig, you amble, and you lisp."
2.
To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. "The fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all."





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"Jig" Quotes from Famous Books



... on to, Julius Benjamin. The bridge is gone. So's everything else. It's only a matter of time when Goggles will be gone, too. This last will fix him with the company." Zephyr glanced slyly at Bennie with the last words. "The jig is up. The fiddle's broke its last string, and I'm ...
— Blue Goose • Frank Lewis Nason
... around the world, but Daniel Boone, that young rebel, didn't even hear of it until the following August. Whereupon the fearless hunter with the abandon of a happy lad danced a jig around the bonfire inside the stockade. It could have been an Elizabethan jig, ironically enough, for the Boones were English. Daniel tossed his coonskin cap into the air again and again and let out a war whoop that brought the terrified Rebecca hurrying to the cabin door, a whoop ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... at once. "Besides," he added, "if the Frostola man doesn't see us come out, he'll know the jig is up right now. So ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... his head forward as she pondered this. If she telephoned to her father-in-law's to ask about Billie, the jig would be up! He drew his hand across his face and fell back with relief as she ...
— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson
... a jig when I was a wee thing in pinafores. He will never play for me unless I dance for him. You know he thinks I am still a child of eight or ten. If you think it's not—real nice, I won't ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey


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