DCHP-3

jig ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†v. — Nfld

fish with a jigger (def. 1).

See: jigger(def. 1)

Quotations

1859
It [squid] is made no use of except for bait; and as it maintains itself in deeper water than the capelin, instead of nets being used to take it, it is jigged.
1958
After jigging a few small, ordinary fish, young Bob's jigger jabbed into "something real big". . . .
1965
On each fish day in spring and summer the men go out in their small boats to net, trap, jig, and trawl capelin, cod, and herring.
2v.

fish with a jig.

Quotations

1939
. . . we cut a hole in the ice and sat on a seat of boughs and jigged with a hook baited with salt pork.
1960
An Indian woman, iron-grey hair in braids, her dress a checkerboard of blue and yellow, was jigging for sea bass.