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GIG

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 5 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GIG , apparently an onomatopoeic word for -any light whirling
object
 , and so used of a top, as in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, v. i. 7o (" Goe whip thy gigge "), or of a revolving lure made of feathers for snaring birds. The word is now chiefly used of a light two-wheeled cart or
carriage
  for one
horse
 , and of a narrow, light, ship's boat for oars or sails, and also of a clinker-built rowing-boat used for rowing on the Thames. " Gig " is further applied, in
mining
 , to a wooden chamber or box divided in the centre and used to draw miners up and down a pit or
shaft
 , and to a textile
machine
 , the " gig-mill " or " gigging
machine
 ," which raises the nap on
cloth
  by means of teazels. A " gig " or " fish-gig " (properly " fiz-gig," possibly an adaptation of Span. fisga,
harpoon
 ) is an
instrument
  used for spearing fish.


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