Associations to the word «Jig»

JIG, noun. (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

JIG, noun. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

JIG, noun. (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

JIG, noun. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.

JIG, noun. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

JIG, noun. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

JIG, noun. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

JIG, noun. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.

JIG, verb. To move briskly, especially as a dance.

JIG, verb. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

JIG, verb. (fishing) To fish with a jig.

JIG, verb. To sing to the tune of a jig.

JIG, verb. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

JIG, verb. (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

JIG, verb. To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

JIG BORER, noun. A type of machine tool invented during the World War I era to make possible the quick-yet-very-precise location of hole centers.

JIG BORERS, noun. Plural of jig borer

JIG SAW, noun. Alternative spelling of jigsaw

JIG, noun. Music in three-four time for dancing a jig.

JIG, noun. A fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water.

JIG, noun. A device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it.

JIG, noun. Any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping.

JIG, verb. Dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions.