The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jig \Jig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Jigging.]
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To sing to the tune of a jig.
Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
--Shak. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
--Ford.(Mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
(Metal Working) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastjig)
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Usage examples of "jigged".
Sam pushed back the stool, kissed a tissue to take the shine off her lips, scrumpled it into the ashtray, then jigged impatiently from foot to foot.
It was a moderate-sized one with two blades, light-colored scales of jigged bone, and bolsters of German silver.
When I opened the eyes first that I saw went the flames that jigged about around to my, and I had the security of to me not to have mistaken.
Peregrine twisted the shrouds again, and they jigged back in the other direction.
Every twenty hours, Greenstalk and Blueshell jigged the ship sideways a few light-years, into some major trunk line of the Known Net to soak up the News.
It was an ordinary two-blade jackknife, with German-silver bolsters and scales of jigged bone.
Jill’s gray gnome stood on the rampart, grinning at him while it jigged up and down in excitement.
There she could allow herself a crow of triumph, and she even jigged a few steps of a country dance upon the Bardek carpet.
He raised his hands, then dropped them hack to his thighs with a slap so sharp his normally stolid mount laid his cars back and jigged a bit under him.