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Jigger

noun
1.
A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey.  Synonyms: pony, shot glass.
2.
Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl.  Synonym: jiggermast.
3.
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.  Synonyms: chigger, harvest mite, redbug.





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"Jigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... all sorts of chances of escape, 'the mast would be at the bow. And if it is a cutter, you would still have to put the mast farther forward, and give her a boom and a bowsprit. Or if it is a yawl, then you would have a little jigger-mast astern—about there——' ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black
... and annoying insect, the chigoe, or "jigger," is able to bore a hole through the sole of a shoe and attack ...
— A Little Journey to Puerto Rico - For Intermediate and Upper Grades • Marian M. George


Words linked to "Jigger" :   genus Trombicula, mast, Trombicula, glass, trombiculid, drinking glass


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