jig

Definitions

• (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
• (traditional Irish music and) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
• (traditional English Morris) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
• (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
• 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, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
• (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
• (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
• (obsolete) A trick; a prank.