Usually means: Shaping clay using a rotating mold.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. jiggering: Merriam-Webster
  2. jiggering: Wordnik
  3. jiggering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. jiggering: Wiktionary
  5. jiggering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jiggering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jiggering: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jiggering: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jiggering: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/j.html">Jiggering: Ceramic Terminology Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jigger)

noun:  (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
noun:  (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
noun:  (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
noun:  (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
noun:  (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
noun:  (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
noun:  (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
noun:  A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
noun:  (UK, slang, dated) A bicycle.
noun:  (golf, dated) A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
noun:  A warehouse crane.
noun:  (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
noun:  (nautical) A jiggermast.
noun:  (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
noun:  (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
noun:  (archaic) One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.
noun:  (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
noun:  (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
noun:  (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
noun:  The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
noun:  (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
noun:  (archaic) A streetcar drawn by a single horse.
noun:  (archaic) A kind of early electric cash register.
noun:  (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
verb:  (transitive) To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
verb:  (pottery, transitive) To use a jigger.
verb:  (transitive) To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
noun:  A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
noun:  A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.
noun:  (dialect, Liverpool, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
noun:  (slang, euphemistic, dated) The penis.
noun:  (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
noun:  (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A door.
noun:  (slang) An illegal distillery.
verb:  (slang, obsolete) To imprison.
verb:  (slang, archaic) To confound; to damn.
noun:  (slang, UK) Short for jigger gun (“lock pick”). [(slang, UK) A lock pick.]
▸ Also see jigger


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