What's the difference between jigger and rigger?

Jigger


Definition:

  • (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.

Rigger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
  • (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) InsP3 as the rigger of Ca2+ release is continuously supplied while an elevated basal [Ca2+]i level due to Ca2+ influx provides a favourable condition for IICR and CICR as well as for recharging the Ca2+ pools ready to release Ca2+ again.
  • (2) Dominic Hook, Unite national officer "Innocent bank staff must not be allowed to carry the can for the rate riggers ...
  • (3) The demonstration riggered a “code grey” security alert – a major disturbance – and some sources said two Papua New Guinean nationals were injured when local police responded in a “heavy-handed” way, with “weapons drawn”.
  • (4) I and a few "riggers" were holding upright one of the four slabs of One Ton Prop (House of Cards) which leant against each other.
  • (5) Datta, H. Rigger, and E. Schleiermacher (in Chemical Mutagenesis in Mammals and Man, F. Vogel and G. Röhrborn, eds., pp.
  • (6) The final episode of Channel Five's Oil Riggers drew 600,000 viewers and a 3% share at 8pm, while Extraordinary People: The World's Strongest Toddler picked up 900,000 and 4% in the 9pm hour.
  • (7) The Times writes : "Sushi and sex revealed as RBS Libor-riggers’ currency" as it romps through some of the exchanges between traders ( see here ).
  • (8) Embarrassing Bodies was up against BBC2 reality show The Speaker, which had 1.2 million viewers, a 5% share, and Five's Oil Riggers, watched by 1 million viewers.
  • (9) That is something that the Libor riggers and forex manipulators cannot joke about.

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