jigger

To jerk; shake.

The penetrating flea of the West Indies: same as chigoe.

In the United States, a name of sundry harvest-mites or harvest-ticks which, though normally plant-feeders, fasten to the skin of human beings and cause great irritation.

To pull (a log) by horsepower over a level place in a slide.

An illicit still.

A leaded hook or gang of hooks used without bait for catching fish by jigging. see jig, 6 .

A machine used for dyeing cloth. See jig-dyer.

In golf, a club with an iron head, between a mashy and a mid-iron, used for approaching.

In wireless telegraphy, a small transformer used for regulating and maintaining the difference of potential between the terminals of a coherer.