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Jigger   Listen
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Jigger  v. t.  To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball. "He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop."






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"Jigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... want. In some potteries there is hardly a throwing wheel in use, and articles are formed in plaster of Paris moulds. There are two ways of using these moulds. By one method, the mould is put upon a "jigger," a power machine which keeps it revolving, and clay is pressed against its walls from within. Above the mould is a piece of iron cut in the shape of the inside curve of the bowl or whatever is being made. This skims off ...
— Makers of Many Things • Eva March Tappan



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