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A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
2000, Robert B. Hess, drinkboy.com:
- A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass.
(quote-journal)
A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
(quote-book)|chapter=13|passage= “People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”
A drink of whiskey.
One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
{{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=thepotteries.org|title=Jiggering
A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
A bicycle.
{{quote-text|en|year=1932|author=Frank Richards|chapter=The Complete Outsider|title=The Magnet
A club used to play low flying shots to the green from short distances.
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.
A jiggermast.
A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
(non-gloss)
{{quote-text|en|year=1915|title=Printers' Ink|page=119
A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
An illicit shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
A streetcar drawn by a single horse.
A station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
(ux)
To use a jigger.
To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
{{quote-text|en|year=1899|author=Carlyle Smith|chapter=The Secret of Golf|title=Harper's Magazine
A larva of any of several mites in the family (taxlink); chigger, mite.
(quote-web)
An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
The penis.
(quote-book)
A vagina.
A door.
{{quote-book
An illegal distillery.
(short for)
To imprison.
{{quote-text|en|year=1870|author=J.T. Campion|chapter=Billy in the Bowl|title=The Shamrock|volume=8|page=107
{{quote-text|en|year=1831|author=John Banim|title=The Smuggler|page=231
{{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=Frances Hodgson Burnett|title=Little Lord Fauntleroy|page=173