JIG'GER, noun In sea-language, a machine consisting of a rope about five feet long, with a block at one end and a sheave at the other, used to hold on the cable when it is heaved into the ship, by the revolution of the windlass.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.