Dictionary Entry
jigger
jigger is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and noun & verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
- 2noun & verb
One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.
- 3noun & verb
A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
- 4noun & verb
A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
- 5noun & verb
A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- 6noun & verb
A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- 7noun & verb
A supplementary sail. See Dandy., 2 (b).
- 8noun
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).
- 9noun
larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- 10noun
any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
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- 11noun
a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
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