List of synonyms from "Jezebel" to synonyms from "jiltings"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms jiffier, jihad, jiggle, jilt, jiggered, jibe and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
Definition of the day : « jigger »
- noun gadget
- noun drop
- The jigger had been made and bent, and a suitable mast was stepped by means of the roof.
- Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
- While examining her with our glasses, a sail was set on her jigger mast.
- Extract from : « The 'Fan Kwae' at Canton Before Treaty Days 1825-1844 » by William C. Hunter
- Jigger, a secret still for the manufacture of illicit spirits.
- Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
- It had a close resemblance to the jigger of yawl-rigged yachts.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7 » by Various
- Overhaul a buntline a little, bend the jigger to it, and trice up on deck.
- Extract from : « The Seaman's Friend » by Richard Henry Dana
- And these are the kind of fellows, too, who jigger our ridin' on this railroad.
- Extract from : « Tramping with Tramps » by Josiah Flynt
- This is placed on the center of the wheel or jigger and in it the face of the plate is turned.
- Extract from : « The Potter's Craft » by Charles F. Binns
- When I hauled it in the jigger came too, for it hadn't taken hold.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Billy Topsail » by Norman Duncan
- Step your jigger or dandy mast in the stern after the same manner.
- Extract from : « Boat-Building and Boating » by Daniel Carter Beard
- His hands instinctively sought his nose and he pulled off the 'jigger.'
- Extract from : « Jack Harkaway in New York » by Bracebridge Hemyng