Jig

Quick meaning: Jig is a noun meaning (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

Meaning

(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

More Meanings

1. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
2. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
3. (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
4. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
6. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
7. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.

Example Sentences

They danced a jig.

Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.

A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime.

This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State.

Word Forms

• jigs
• jigging
• jigged

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