English-Finnish translations for jig

  • jigi
  • penkkiVanhoissa pirteissä oli kiinteitä penkkejä seinustalla ja irtopenkkejä tai raheja pirtin pöydän ympärillä.puistonpenkkiajurin penkki
  • pidin

Definition of jig

  • A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue
  • A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team
  • A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, weldersjigs, jewelersjigs, and many others
  • An apparatus or machine for jigging ore
  • A trick; a prank
  • To move briskly, especially as a dance
  • To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks
  • To fish with a jig
  • To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude
  • To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve
  • A black person

Examples

  • They danced a jig
  • Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig
  • The guests were jigging around on the dance floor

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