Not that it is to be inferred that no pauses were made during the representation of the play, especially at the cheaper and more popular houses, where jigs and musical interludes were among the staple attractions.
Shall we leave of These jigs and speake our harts in earnest?
You said--you said that it was so hard to make friends with him, like whistling jigs to a milestone--ah!
Billy Heffernan played on his fife a succession of jigs and reels that might 'cure a paralytic' [and set him dancing].
Other jigs referred to by contemporary writers are "The Jig of the Ship" and "The Jig of Garlick.
Jigs of this kind commonly terminated the performances upon the Elizabethan stage, which otherwise consisted of one dramatic piece only.
Put the music into their pocket, Order the figure-man not to bawl, Twenty jigs were still on the docket, When they adjourned the Barnstable Ball.
Why, curling wigs Fit for a shake in German jigs And hoo!
He wears a blue belt across his diaphragm, and a silver star on his left breast--he jigs up and down the room, and makes himself at home in his own house.
This makes a contrivance resembling the squid jigsused by our fishermen.
The line is unreeled and let down through the hole till the jigs hang about a foot from the bottom.
Tell her I shall be a miserable devil till I hear of her dancing jigs on Mary Kyley's bar counter again,' said Jim.
The work may also be done without thesejigs and forms, as will be described later.
When the special jigs and forms are used, the work is done, as follows: 1.
For removing the connectors and for separating the post from the cover insert, the Willard Company furnishes special jigs and forms.
He stood on the steps, watching the elated Jigs go scudding across the Circle, and then went into the Kennedy.
Crude wooden jigs were sawed out and nailed together.
Plastic tubing was heated and curled into the jigs and, when cooled, was taken out in the precise shapes of formers, spars, and bulk-head frames.
Making jigs and dies consumes a great deal of time in preparation work, but once the preparation stage has been passed, articles are produced with wonderful rapidity and very little waste of time.
In some modern shops even standardized drawings are scarcely used, but their place is taken by the templets, jigs and fixtures which are employed by the workmen as their sole guides in machining and assembling parts.
They show the boy the value of the use of jigs in factory work.
This phase of the work may be done during class discussions and demonstrations at which time the different jigs and fixtures needed for progressive production may also be developed.
The three most common forms of jigs are cutting jigs, boring jigs, and assembling jigs.
A large number of small tools such as drills, taps, reamers, and the like, and also numerous jigs and fixtures of various kinds, are drawn daily from the Tool Room and returned there after being used.
But the poor king was fated to have little enjoyment of either jigs or May-poles; harsher work belonged to his reign; and all his garden-delights came to be limited finally to a little pot of flowers upon his prison-window.
A man or woman steps into the limelight and commences to jig, a dark form in moccasins slips up in front of the dancer, and one jigs the other down, amid plaudits for the survivor and jeers for the quitter.
The change also resulted in making scrap iron of a large quantity of the jigs and special tools employed in making the lighter engines.
In some makes of jigs there are two guide rollers at the bottom and one at the top as shown in the illustration, so that the cloth passes several times through the dye-liquor.
It is not advisable in working these jigs to add the whole of the dye to the liquor at the commencement, but only a part of it, then when one end is given another portion of the dye may be added, such (p.
The monks, who had all crowded into the loft in expectation of brisk jigs and lively overtures, soon retired upon hearing a strain ten times more sorrowful than that to which they were accustomed.
And finally, as a clinching argument, in one of the neighbouring settlements there is a barrel-organ which plays its psalm tunes in the middle of its jigs and waltzes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
