• A light, brisk musical movement. • A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad. • A piece of sport; a trick; a prank. • A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached. • A small machine or handy tool • A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing. • An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore. • To sing to the tune of a jig. • To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. • To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n. • To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine. • To dance a jig; to skip about.