Gig
[gɪg] or [ɡɪɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a booking for musicians; 'they played a gig in New Jersey'.
(noun.) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood.
(noun.) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain.
(noun.) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing.
(noun.) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting.
Checked by Juliana--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fiddle.
(v. t.) To engender.
(n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
(v. t.) To fish with a gig.
(n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Editor: Olaf
Definition
n. a light two-wheeled carriage: a long light boat: (U.S.) sport fun.—v.t. and v.i. Gig′git (U.S.) to convey or move rapidly.—ns. Gig′man one who drives or keeps a gig—a favourite term of Carlyle's for a narrow philistinism based on the possession of a little more money than others whence Gig′maness Gigman′ity Gig′mānia.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To run a gig in your dream, you will have to forego a pleasant journey to entertain unwelcome visitors. Sickness also threatens you. See Cart.
Editor: Ryan
Examples
- She was engaged to breakfast that morning with the Duchess of Beltshire, and at twelve o'clock she asked to be set ashore in the gig. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Tell him, when he theeth that gig clothe by, to jump down, and it'll take him off at a rattling pathe. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- That is Mrs. Waule's gig--the last yellow gig left, I should think. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Put up the gig afterwards. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Vholes rose, gloved and buttoned up as usual, and seated himself again, just as he had seated himself beside Richard in the gig. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Yorke, after having alighted from his gig, which he left in charge of a man who issued from an outbuilding on his arrival, led the way in. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My employer drove home through it in his gig, and reached the house wetted to the skin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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