Even Vernon ceased his jiggingand baby Phyllis uttered no sound: for she had fallen asleep.
Metal Working) Defn: To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
Mining) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
The doggerel rhyme favored in the popular drama was to give place to blank verse, and the jigging clowns to heroic themes and "high astounding terms.
It is certain that in the time of Marlowe they were gaping for sensation and joyed in a comedy of beatings, a tragedy of murders, and a mixture of jigging and villany.
At one time a system of washing, screening andjigging is employed.
High grade ore may be selected in mining the richer parts of these deposits, but most of it requires mechanical treatment, such as long washing and jigging to free it from clay, sand and other impurities.
Very good, sir," said the little man, jigging and bobbing.
He was jigging with his knees, and the words joggled as they came out.
Larry, as usual, made himself at home with his fiddle, and soon set the seamen and French prisoners jigging away, as he had done on board other ships.
Then he went on jigging away, to the great delight of his audience,--no one observing the captain or us.
Now try again, not jigging as you did before, but giving yourself a regular see-saw sort of swing.
Picture to yourselves two hundred blue and golden marionettes jigging to Sir Roger de Coverley or bobbing to Come Lasses and Lads.
EU integration is an attempt to assimilate former Soviet satellites and dilute Germany's power by re-jigging rules of voting and representation.
Jigging parties be all very well on the Devil's holidays; but a jigging party looks suspicious now.
Wragg, rubbing his hands, and jigging about as if freshly wound up.
Not a polka," said he, sadly, feeling the poetry in his heart insulted by the jigging measure.
We sat in the restaurant listening to the jigging of the music, watching the changing flow of the people.
The tune had swept up the valley like an epidemic disease: and, after a while, it astonished no dweller in Eucalyptus to find his waking thoughts and his whole daily converse jigging to it.
To dancing and jiggingherself and Jack fell, and the pots and pans and the wheels and reels began to dance and jig over the floor, and the house jigged also.
And when the man lifted the bum-clock and put it in his pocket everybody stopped jigging and dancing and everyone laughed aloud.
I was at it, too, and got brogues, broth and slippers of bread, and came jigging home on my head.
One day we were watching the results of a jigging from the "Long Tom" and suddenly there sparkled before us a large, brilliant stone.
They then pick off the biggest ones and then go on jigging as usual.
We built a shed for our tools, and we got the hand pump out, we prepared sieves for jigging and we made "Long Toms" and swinging sieves, washing troughs and all the necessary apparatus.
Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.
The tin-stone which the foreman removes from the box, is afterward washed in a jigging sieve, and lastly in a tub, where at length all the sand is separated out.
Lead mining has been in active progress in Derbyshire since the 13th century, and concentration was done on an inclined board until the 16th century, when William Humphrey (see below) introduced the jigging sieve.
Derbyshire methods in which a then recent great improvement was the jigging sieve, the introduction of which was due to William Humphrey (mentioned above).
The jigging sieve has recently come into use by miners.
As Oak approached the building the sound of violins and a tambourine, and the regular jigging of many feet, grew more distinct.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jigging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: casting; fishing; whaling
