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1†n. — Nfld
See 1832 quote.
See: jig ((n.))
Quotations
1778
The Stag brought in seven quintals of fish this evening, which were killed with jiggers.
1832
A jigger is a piece of lead made into the form of a small fish, with two hooks fixed into its mouth, and turned outwards in opposite directions. It is made fast to a line, which is thrown over into the sea, and by jerking it up and down, the hooks frequently fasten into the cod or other fish. . . .
<i>c</i>1936
All sizes and figures, with squid lines and jiggers, / They congregate here on the squid-jiggin' ground.
2n. — North
See 1958 quote.
Quotations
1946
The jigger is a wooden plank with a slot in the middle through which a wooden arm controlled by a metal lever, moves.
1958
[Caption] the jigger . . . is used to hang [gill] nets under the ice. Inserted through a hole cut for the purpose, the jigger floats against the ice and is driven ahead by a lever worked with a line. The rig is recovered at another hole and the line is used to thread the net.
1964
During the summer the fishermen set their gill-nets and tend them daily by boat. In the winter, the gill-nets are set under the ice surface with a device called a "jigger."
3n.
a hand-car or gas-car.
Quotations
1934
. . . and it was arranged with Mr. Gafer . . . to take me to Long Lake on his gas-car, or jigger, which was fitted with a motor and flanged wheels and ran on the railroad track.
1947
Two of them . . . travelled by jigger along the line to Headquarters. . . .
1958
A few days before I boarded the WP & Y, a jigger carrying eight men came belting around the mountains and ran smack into a moose.
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