Gig: Definition and part of speech

Gig

  1. n. A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
  2. n. A fiddle.
  3. v. t. To engender.
  4. n. A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
  5. v. t. To fish with a gig.
  6. n. A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
  7. n. A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
  8. n. A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
  9. 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.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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