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Jigger

noun
1.
A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey.  Synonyms: pony, shot glass.
2.
Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl.  Synonym: jiggermast.
3.
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.  Synonyms: chigger, harvest mite, redbug.






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"Jigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... folding chair near by. He was tired. His sailor, Poul Halvard, moved about with a noiseless and swift efficiency; he rolled and cased the jib, and then, with a handful of canvas stops, secured and covered the mainsail and proceeded aft to the jigger. Unlike Woolfolk, Halvard was short—a square figure with a smooth, deep-tanned countenance, colorless and steady, pale blue eyes. His mouth closed so tightly that it appeared immovable, as if it had been carved from some obdurate material that opened for ...
— Wild Oranges • Joseph Hergesheimer

... Cape coast. This march of 150 miles was accomplished in seven days. Of this expedition B.-P. recalls "ten minutes' genuine fun,"—that was when a doctor was cutting out from under his toe-nail the eggs of an insect called the jigger, rude enough to make a nest of B.-P.'s big toe. It is such incidents as these that live in the soldier's mind ...
— The Story of Baden-Powell - 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' • Harold Begbie

... a Trombidium, Leptus americanus, or harvest bug, misnamed jigger (chigoe). MALADY: Autumn mange.—This parasite is a brick-red acarus, visible to the naked eye on a dark ground, and living on green vegetation in many localities. It attacks man, and the horse, ox, dog, etc., burrowing under the skin and giving rise to small ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture



Words linked to "Jigger" :   Trombicula, genus Trombicula, mast, trombiculid, glass, drinking glass



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