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Jigging   Listen
noun
Jigging  n.  (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.





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"Jigging" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the Christmas ball, Where we shall be jolly Jigging short and tall, Kate, Dick, ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various
... were meant to be traveled on horseback, at the jigging coyote trot that only western-bred horses learn successfully. A foot-pace carries one too slowly past the units in a decorative scheme that is on a scale with the country round for bigness. It takes days' journeys to give a note of variety to the country of the social shrubs. These chiefly ...
— The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin
... been reading them each evening from the Bible. It has been the story of Saul, David and Jonathan. They have been so interested that several times I have had to read them more than one chapter. Then each says his prayers and repeats the hymn he is learning, Quentin usually jigging solemnly up and down while he repeats it. Each finally got one hymn perfect, whereupon in accordance with previous instructions from mother I presented each of them with a five-cent piece. Yesterday (Saturday) I took both of them and Ethel, together with the three ...
— Letters to His Children • Theodore Roosevelt
... home, home to my own bleak kindly land, "place of all weathers that end in rain." I am going home to my own people (I think I see Peter jigging up and down in expectation before my trunks); and I am going to you. And the queer thing is, I can't feel glad, I am so home-sick for India. All my horror of bombs and sudden death has gone, and memory (as someone says) is making magic carpets under my feet, so that I am back again in the ...
— Olivia in India • O. Douglas
... about on the sidewalk jeering and fleering, jigging and singing, talking loud, horse-laughing, and hungrily eyeing the girls and women that passed by, who tried hard to seem, as they went, not self-conscious and stiff-stepping because of our observation ... ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp


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