What is "jiggers"

Usage examples of "jiggers".

However, when it rolled ashore Jiggers, the cook, discovered that dirty river water had seeped into a barrel of flour and fifty pounds of sugar.

Trey long to purchase the flour and sugar, adding to his order some chewing tobbaco for Jiggers and a box of cheroots for his friend Matt Carlton.

Trey dashed his wash water onto a patch of brush and then settled down in front of the cookfire to watch Jiggers stir up a batch of skillet-bread dough.

Darkness had settled in when Jiggers had the sourdough batter frying over a bed of live coals.

The first bunch would come in then and sleep until just before dawn, when Jiggers would roust them out of their bedrolls.

When Jiggers banged on a pan a few hours later, announcing that breakfast was ready, Trey was tempted to leave the herd and ride with Lacey to the ranch.

All the riders had saddled fresh horses, and the first half of the group was eating the beefsteaks Jiggers had prepared for them when lightning lit up the area, followed by a deafening roll of thunder.

Drenched and blinded by the slashing rain, the men were trying desperately to turn the frightened cattle away from the chuck wagon, where Jiggers was hanging on to the frantic mules, and the horses in the remuda were squealing their terror as the thundering herd swept toward them.

He could see Jiggers hobbling around the campfire, starting breakfast.

Breakfast was ready then, and they lined up to have Jiggers fill their tin plates with flapjacks and bacon.

As he lay waiting for Jiggers to build a fire and start a pot of coffee to brewing, he relived the dream that had awakened him.

Trey pushed the worrisome thoughts from his mind when he heard Jiggers making waking-up noises.

When they agreed that Bull would have a roaring fit if that came to pass, Jiggers changed the subject.

As Trey laid Lacey on the ground a safe distance away from the burning buildings, Jiggers came thundering up.

He was about to ask for the third time where the hell they were, when Jiggers and the doctor arrived.