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

  • The current level of "jiggering" is more than adequate to provide for the rest of the country.

    can of worms 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Population vs Pros, part II 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • We've gotten so good at this kind of jiggering of reality that we now like to use the word

    Paradise Post Most Viewed 2010

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