Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ceramics, the process of making plates and saucers, and other flat-ware, on the jigger. See
jigger , 2 .
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- verb Present participle of
jigger .
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Examples
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The current level of "jiggering" is more than adequate to provide for the rest of the country.
can of worms 2005
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Any argument to date against the idea of jiggering is usually followed by an ad hominem attack on the defender of free pouring and it is to this that I want to draw attention.
Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure Karl Kozel 2010
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Any argument to date against the idea of jiggering is usually followed by an ad hominem attack on the defender of free pouring and it is to this that I want to draw attention.
Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure Karl Kozel 2010
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Any argument to date against the idea of jiggering is usually followed by an ad hominem attack on the defender of free pouring and it is to this that I want to draw attention.
Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure Karl Kozel 2010
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Any argument to date against the idea of jiggering is usually followed by an ad hominem attack on the defender of free pouring and it is to this that I want to draw attention.
Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure Karl Kozel 2010
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Any argument to date against the idea of jiggering is usually followed by an ad hominem attack on the defender of free pouring and it is to this that I want to draw attention.
Spirits: The last of the fabled free pourers Jason Wilson 2010
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Please recall the "jiggering" of said GSCI in August of '06 and what that ultimately did for the wholesale gasoline markets-just in time for the elections IMO.
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Nobody knows what it was, for when he had come up to the point whence he had started, he began a policy of violent short tugs -- not "jiggering," as it is called, but plunging with all his weight on the line.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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No, this was not a "jiggering" fish; but he was a pretty lively customer, for all that, as they were soon to find out.
Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869
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We've gotten so good at this kind of jiggering of reality that we now like to use the word
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