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Webster 1913 Edition
Jigging
Jig′ging
,Noun.
(Mining)
The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.
Jigging machine
. (a)
(Mining)
A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging
. (b)
(Metal Working)
A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a template by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; – used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.
Definition 2024
jigging
jigging
English
Verb
jigging
- present participle of jig
Noun
jigging (plural jiggings)
- The act of dancing a jig.
- 1837, Memoirs of Mirabeau (in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436)
- There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
- 1837, Memoirs of Mirabeau (in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436)
- (mining) The act of using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.