(n.) A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
(n. & v.) One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.
(n. & v.) A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
(n. & v.) A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
(n. & v.) 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.
(n. & v.) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
(n. & v.) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).
(n.) A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).
Example Sentences:
(1) They re-jiggered their primary system to enhance party influence in choosing a candidate, and Trump, the great orange-haired Unintended Consequence, has played their innovations like a fiddle.
(2) 11.48am: I'm examining those groups in a bid to come up with a Group of Death, but I'm jiggered if I can find one.
(3) The swamps are host to malaria, bilharzia and jigger worms, which burrow into human skin and can cause secondary infections, including tetanus and gangrene.
(4) 12 min: The match ball, having been mindlessly kicked in the face Goleo VI style, is jiggered, rather like domestic victim Pille the Erudite Ball.
(5) The following semester, in a college production of Carousel, having shed over 100lb, he played the villain Jigger.
(6) Argentina in their lovely blue-and-white shirts, and tradition-jiggering white shorts which are NOT OK. Look at the picture of Batistuta in this preamable, and think on, Adidas, Fifa, the AFA, or whoever's at fault for this sartorial disgrace.
(7) City jigger about with the ball on the edge of the City area, before Ferdinand cuts out a pass through to Aguero.
(8) Inside these structures, children mostly sit on bare earth, and emerge bathed in dust and infested with jiggers (a pest that burrows into the skin, generally under the toenails and fingernails).
(9) 7.02pm BST Dramatis personæ Barcelona leave the half-jiggered Leo Messi on the bench, while Alex Song makes a rare appearance.
(10) And no wonder, Fulham were coming back strongly into the match but that's jiggered their momentum.
(11) A case of infestation with Tunga penetrans (jigger flea) is described.
(12) Porto's defence could be properly jiggered come the start of the season: an increasingly hectic Liverpool may be making off with Christian Atsu , too.
(13) Two corners follow, from the second of which and after much jiggering around, City fashion what would have been a chance had three of them not all been offside.
Miner
Definition:
(n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
(n.) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
(n.) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(3) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(4) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(5) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
(6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(8) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
(9) These data indicate improved bone mineralization as compared with previously reported data from very-low-birth-weight neonates.
(10) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
(12) The method of mineral estimation using phalanges is described and its reproducibility was tested on 17 parameters.
(13) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
(14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
(15) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
(16) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
(17) Unsupplemented human breast milk may not provide sufficient calcium and phosphorus for the rapidly growing preterm infant to match the accumulation that should have taken place in utero and to permit normal bone mineralization.
(18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(19) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(20) These diets were: diet C consisting of commercial Rat Chow: diet CG, the same diet diluted with 70% glucose calories, diet A, a simulated "American" diet made up of 25 widely used foods, diet AS, the same diet supplemented with small amounts of 25 vitamins and minerals.