Crossword clues for joggle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joggle \Jog"gle\, v. i. To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
Joggle \Jog"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Joggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Joggling.] [Freq. of jog.]
To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
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(Arch.) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
--Gwilt.
Joggle \Jog"gle\, n. [Arch.] A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like.
Joggle joint (Arch.), a joint in any kind of building material, where the joining surfaces are made with joggles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, apparently a frequentative of jog, though attested earlier than it. Related: Joggled; joggling. Carpentry sense is from 1703, of unknown origin. As a noun from 1727.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context engineering English) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends. 2 (context architecture English) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog. 2 (context intransitive English) To shake or totter; to slip out of place. 3 To jog or run while juggling. 4 (context architecture transitive English) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
WordNet
n. a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together [syn: dowel, dowel pin]
a slight irregular shaking motion [syn: jiggle]
v. move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!" [syn: jiggle, wiggle]
fasten or join with a joggle
Wikipedia
Joggle means to shake to and fro, to rock something about, and can be used both transitively and intransitively in several ways, including:
- to joggle along, walk along with short, jerky movements (Oxford English Dictionary, 2003)
- Joggle bending, a type of offset bend in construction.
- Joggling, a pastime that combines juggling and jogging.
- Joggling board, a type of bouncy furniture.
- Joggling (pottery), a method of pot decoration.
- "Joggle Along", a Cornish children's game, (The Folk-lore Journal Vol. 57, 1888), sung to a nursery rhyme of the same name.
Usage examples of "joggle".
Then, as the wheels joggled the ship back and forth, Goldy raised his gun to shoot again.
To give stability the sides of the voussoirs are gauged out hollow and grouted in Portland cement, thus connecting each brick with the next by a joggle joint.
The joggling camera registering the walking legs of a man and the two heavy, black, flame-scarred boxes he carried, one on either side of him.
Chekov paced around the transporter console, almost joggling the transporter chiefs elbows as he walked back and forth behind her.
As Althorn joggled the sieves, powdery earth trickled through, portions stopping at intervals along the line.
He had taken the spools containing the recording tape out of his pocket and was joggling them up and down on the palm of his hand.
He sat back and thought a space, beringed white hand toying with the end of his leftward mustachio—and joggling his jowels.
They might be more than annoyed if they were in the middle of something important, like documenting a find or running an age-assay, and she joggled their elbows.
She joggled the switch again and again, pausing only long enough to identify where the gram had been taken.
The Mouser joggled the rod slightly, gauging his aim before he dropped the claw.
She held my wrist to look at my watch, took me by the elbow and, before I knew what had happened, we had joggled out of Satis House to the library.
Their plump pubescent breasts were shining with cow fat and red clay, and their buttocks were bare and round and joggled with each disappointed pace as Aboli sent them away.
She stood naked in the light of her own lantern, and her fat honey-coloured breasts joggled together as she leaned over the window-sill.
As she walked away her little breasts joggled merrily and her plump, naked buttocks undulated.
Dax glanced down at the optical cables she was holding for O'Brien, to make sure she hadn't joggled them.