jigger

• Mix the solutions and work in a jigger, then steam in a Mather & Platt apparatus for two minutes, then work hot in a jigger in a solution of 2 lb. —  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
• "If it ain't the young Britisher that--jigger my buttons if I didn't think I'd seen yer before, stranger. —  A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story
• These latter, that is to say the jigger-mast and the small lug, we stretched over the stern-sheets of the longboat in the same way as we had dealt with the gig, leading the yoke lines forward on top of the sail, so that the steering arrangements might not be interfered with. —  A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
• The vase on which he is working has previously been roughly formed on a jigger--a revolving mould over which a sheet of clay has been pressed and quickly shaped. —  The Story of Porcelain
• There are two machines very commonly used in the United States for shaping the cheaper wares: one is a jigger, a device of this type; and the other a jolly, an invention very similar in construction but having a tool attached that forms the outside, or bottom of the piece, the inside of which has previously been shaped by the jigger. —  The Story of Porcelain

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