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Definition of Gigging
1. gig [v] - See also: gig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gigging
Literary usage of Gigging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"There is A Harz gigging-Machine. an increasing tendency to establish the plant
for smelting out the metal at the mouth of the mine, although in many cases ..."
2. Men I Have Fished with: Sketches of Characters and Incidents with Rod and by Fred Mather (1897)
"gigging FISH IN WISCONSIN—SHOOTING A DEER WITH WOODEN PLUGS. THE little mining
town of Potosi lies in the southwest corner of Wisconsin. ..."
3. Men I Have Fished with: Sketches of Characters and Incidents with Rod and by Fred Mather (1897)
"gigging FISH IN WISCONSIN—SHOOTING A DEER WITH WOODEN PLUGS. THE little mining
town of Potosi lies in the southwest corner of Wisconsin. ..."
4. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1821)
"... for various Improvements on a Machine now in use for the dressing and gigging
of Woollen Cloths, called a Gig. Dated February 19, 1818. With a Plate. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Л man who can take charge of dyeing, scouring, fulling, and gigging In a »mall
country mill. Scott, Rokeby, iv. 13. A towell, by the nette ut Margery ..."
6. Wool, the World's Comforter: A Survey of the Wool Industry from the Raw by William Dermot Darby (1922)
"The teasels used in the gigging machine are the dried flower heads of a plant of
... Strictly speaking, the term gigging is applied only to the process of ..."
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