jigger

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jigger

punkki, Trombicula, Trombicula-laji, Trombiculidae-punkki, tulilude, lasi, juomalasi, pieni masto, masto, ryyppylasi, liköörilasi, shottilasi.

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Englannin sanakirja

jigger englanniksi

1. puhekieltä A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.

2. 2000, Robert B. Hess, https://web.archive.org/web/20000528114301/http://drinkboy.com/BarTools/Jigger.html drinkboy.com:

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

3. puhekieltä A measure of 1 1/2 fluid ounces of liquor.

4. puhekieltä The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.

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

6. puhekieltä A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.

7. 2004, http://www.thepotteries.org/jobs/jiggering.htm thepotteries.org, "Jiggering":

Hand jiggers consisted of two iron frames with a spindle in each - the driving spindle with its iron belt pulley approximately 20 inches in diameter and the driven spindle with a small wooden pulley.

8. puhekieltä A device used in the dyeing of cloth.

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

10. puhekieltä A wooden or metal headed golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.

11. puhekieltä 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.

12. puhekieltä A jiggermast.

13. puhekieltä A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.

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

15. puhekieltä One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.

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

17. puhekieltä A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.

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

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

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

20. puhekieltä To use a jigger.

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

22. 1899, Carlyle Smith, "The Secret of Golf", Harpers Magazine'':

He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop.

23. A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.

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

25. puhekieltä A prison; a jail cell.

26. (quote-web)

27. puhekieltä An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.

28. (quote-journal)

29. puhekieltä A penis.

30. (quote-book)

31. puhekieltä A vagina.

32. puhekieltä A door.

33. puhekieltä An illegal distillery.

34. puhekieltä To imprison.

35. 1870, J.T. Campion, "Billy in the Bowl", The Shamrock volume 8, page 107:

...offering to swear an alibi for the prisoner ... to ensure an acquittal. Terms: £50 for value received. No pay if jiggered.

36. puhekieltä To confound; to damn.

37. 1831, John Banim, The Smuggler page 231:

jigger me, but I think you be turning jest into earnest,

38. 1887, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy page 173:

It had always been his habit to say, "I will be jiggered," but this time he said, "I am jiggered."

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