jig
夹具,夹子,夹头,夹钳
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- : Machinery. a plate, box, or open frame for holding work and for guiding a machine tool to the work, used especially for locating and spacing drilled holes; fixture.
- : Angling. any of several devices or lures, especially a hook or gang of hooks weighted with metal and dressed with hair, feathers, etc., for jerking up and down in or drawing through the water to attract fish.
- : Mining. an apparatus for washing coal or separating ore from gangue by shaking and washing.
- : a cloth-dyeing machine in which the material, guided by rollers, is passed at full width through a dye solution in an open vat.
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jigged, jig·ging.
- : to treat, cut, produce, etc., with a jig.
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Examples
Some supposedly "Christian" organizations have been running an interesting game for years now--but in 2014, I think the jig is up.
He did not take a step—do a jig—without calculating the odds.
The Iraqi could barely repress his glee, and did a kind of jig as he walked across the room.
WIN: Washing Machine Everyone can do a Harlem Style jig, even the non-humans.
In the end, the case was referred to the Nassau County District Attorney, and the jig was up.
I wanted her to be there when its full import broke upon him; then the three of us, Mary and Tim and I, would do a wild jig.
Everybody was laughing and singing to the tune of an Irish jig that Norah's father was playing on the bagpipes.
Nor did I release her until Whistling Jim, coming up and realizing the situation, celebrated it by whistling a jig.
And who should he spy in a jig, With a meal-man so tall and so big,But his own darling Kate, so gay and so nate?
From what he hears, or knows, he gathers, that the jig is up.