jigger

jigger englannista suomeksi

1. punkki

2. pieni masto

3. ryyppylasi

jigger englanniksi

1. A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).

2. 2000, Robert B. Hess, drinkboy.com:

A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass.

3. (quote-journal)

4. A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.

5. (quote-book)|chapter=13|passage= “People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”

6. A drink of whiskey.

7. The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.

8. One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.

9. A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=thepotteries.org|title=Jiggering

11. A device used in the dyeing of cloth.

12. A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.

13. A bicycle.

14. {{quote-text|en|year=1932|author=Frank Richards|chapter=The Complete Outsider|title=The Magnet

15. A club used to play low flying shots to the green from short distances.

16. A warehouse crane.

17. 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.

18. A jiggermast.

19. A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.

20. A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.

21. One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.

22. A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.

23. (non-gloss)

24. {{quote-text|en|year=1915|title=Printers' Ink|page=119

25. A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.

26. The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.

27. An illicit shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.

28. A streetcar drawn by a single horse.

29. A kind of early electric register.

30. A station or its predecessor, a theodolite.

31. To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.

''You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work.''

32. To use a jigger.

33. To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.

34. {{quote-text|en|year=1899|author=Carlyle Smith|chapter=The Secret of Golf|title=Harper's Magazine

35. A sandflea, (taxfmt), of the order (taxfmt); chigoe.

36. A larva of any of several mites in the family (taxlink); chigger, mite.

37. A prison; a jail cell.

38. (quote-web)

39. An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.

40. The penis.

41. (quote-book)

42. A vagina.

43. A door.

44. {{quote-book

45. An illegal distillery.

46. A pick.

47. To imprison.

48. {{quote-text|en|year=1870|author=J.T. Campion|chapter=Billy in the Bowl|title=The Shamrock|volume=8|page=107

49. To confound; to damn.

50. {{quote-text|en|year=1831|author=John Banim|title=The Smuggler|page=231

51. {{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=Frances Hodgson Burnett|title=Little Lord Fauntleroy|page=173