How To Use Jigger In A Sentence

I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
Will it cause permanent damage to the sector or is it just rejiggering an out-of-control market?
Well I'm jiggered!
Even bindings have been rejiggered: Forget the drill and screwdriver; the latest fittings snap or slide into place, extending ski life and improving energy transfer.

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If I missed a workout due to work or illness, Jim would simply rejigger my scheduled workouts.
And if we jigger the foundation design to suit the purposes of organizations that will likely be dead in 15 years, how shortsighted is that?
The US is in no position to rejigger this because we don't understand anything about the country.
Voting rights should be rejiggered to make the IMF more representative of the world, and a more attractive forum for Asian nations.
Then, earlier this month, employee paychecks were delayed after a financial rejiggering and a wave of staff layoffs.
There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger.
Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running?
I understand how one can derive that measuring with a jigger is more precise, and perhaps more profitable for beverage operations. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
In this paper, by using finite element method, the stress calculation and strength analysis for the location of the rectangle opening in the dye jigger were carried out.
I compromised with the inevitable by having Wada make up my bed on the deck in the shelter of the cabin skylight just for'ard of the jiggermast. CHAPTER XLIV
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan's move to rejigger his management team should kill any lingering thoughts that Merrill Lynch could be reborn. Mother Merrill Staying Put
He then rejiggered it to echo both the museum's eccentric modernist window and his childhood bedroom.
Without that bounce, AMD would likely fall prey to the summer "rejiggering" that often plagues processor-makers this time of year. AMD Gets Back-To-School Bounce
But here we're making predictions based on certain assumptions, just like Gartner is, and using similar mathematical jiggery-pokery.
Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs. CHAPTER XLVII
So the next several openings I had I just insisted that if there was a female and a male, that we would lean toward the female because I had to rejigger what I was dealing with in terms of an executive team. The High Cost of the Gender Gap
So it's just a matter of rejiggering our fulfillment process and our packing process.
It's a cover of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, with some sort of gritty electro jiggery-pokery.
The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent. Rational Review
The government is rejiggering some tax assessment methods.
I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
“You tell the jigger-dubber!” answered the cribbage player. The Surgeon's Daughter
Therefore there was all this jiggery-pokery so that no one actually had to consider whether he had broken the law.
But these new establishments and the consultants that come out of them are holding onto a tenet that says that not using a jigger is just sloppy bartending. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
It’s apparently an image from the troubled James Robinson-written Justice League story, that was originally announced as an ongoing, then downgraded to a miniseries, and has had its title jiggered with slightly here and there. Dear readers, please ogle this underage girl and think about death, won’t you?
In the broadest sense, the jiggering of the American vote is one of the more routine facts of political life.
Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
When this jigger was abolished the sail retained its lateen shape, got on to the mainmast, and became what we may call a main crossjack, thereby rendering a square mainsail impossible. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
The ‘medicine’ that Amelia spoke of was actually a jigger of brandy followed by three pints of water.
The technique to going quick in one of these jiggers is to leave the braking as late as possible, and enter the corner under brakes, so that the front tyres are biting.
But, indeed, this was a day, a very precious day, considering the time between now and Tuesday, taken up trying to rejigger the staff.
I alternate watches with him, although when on duty there is little to be done, save, in the daytime, to stand rifle in hand behind the jiggermast, and, in the night, to lurk along the break of the poop. CHAPTER XLIII
The feelings turn out to be mutual, you see about rejiggering the teams.
This pattern of mistrust is repeated in company after company as years of loyalty are rewarded with layoff notices and rejiggered pension plans.
As soon as each sail was hauled up and the bunt made, the jigger was bent on to the slack of the buntlines, and the bunt triced up, on deck.
With consulting work scarce, rejiggering IT systems to boost performance is likely to remain a permanent feature of the consulting landscape.
It's apparently an image from the troubled James Robinson-written Justice League story, that was originally announced as an ongoing, then downgraded to a miniseries, and has had its title jiggered with slightly here and there. Blog@Newsarama
Margaret and I ate a deck-breakfast in the shelter of the jiggermast a number of the men sneaked aft and got under the overhang of the poop. CHAPTER XLVII
I'll have a jigger in your honor… my honor is questionable these days.
First Saskia admitted sleeping with Maxwell, and now Makosi and Anthony have been getting up to some suspect jiggery-pokery in the pool.
Are you saying that if instead of the current structure, Congress had re-jiggered the tax code to reach the same effect by AGI reductions you would have no problem with it? The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform
Seems like the only likely source of deposits for all the 1st TARP Banks is the existing deposit base — would this mean a run on existing banks, probably focused on the already dicey ones, or an orderly movement of deposits across the system in a way that would allow an orderly rejiggering of dicey bank balance sheets, with shrinkage on the liability side matching writedowns on the asset side? Matthew Yglesias » Hidden Advantages
The evil geniuses* at Wicked Lasers have weaponized a laser for the consumer market by simply (?) rejiggering an unreasonably-powerful blue laser diode from a home theater projector and placing it in a lightsaber casing. No Way This Can Go Wrong: An Affordable, Real-Life Lightsaber
It seems astonishing that Bond got away with so much jiggery-pokery for as long as he did.
And by "efforts," I mean tinkering and rejiggering their policy towards satire. Georgetown talk: Pulitzer cartoonist MARK FIORE on the midterms, Meg Whitman & good ol' Mark Twain
The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks.
I am not saying beekeeper is wrong by any means, but where Im from a jiggerpole is a long cane pole with a relatively short line attached. Does anyone know what a jiggerpole is and how to fish with it?
Like "socialist", "appeaser" and "community organizer", the appellation "underdog" is just another co-opted, re-jiggered rightwing button that gets pushed every time Ailes and Company want their audience to respond like the flinching sheep they are. Steven Weber: GOP-za-Poppin'!
So we headed into nearby Soho for some late-night jiggery-pokery.
These machines such as jiggers, stenters, brushing, sueding and finishing lines that are now part of any integrated dye-house unit are also available to complement the knitted fabric dyeing concept.
Some cocktail jiggers include a handle of some sort attached to them.
Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
That adds it to the network, without any need to jigger with complex settings.
The Elsinore drifts idly on an idle sea, and we stand regular watches in the shelter of chart-house and jiggermast. CHAPTER XLIII
Maybe after a jigger of scotch and a snort of ecstasy, you'll be more inclined to eat and enjoy these pretzels.
Human contacts increasingly are not human at all, but electronic jiggery-pokery - even voices are made redundant by text and e-mail.
A four-minute featurette gives you an idea of what work was necessary to jigger the film down to a PG - 13 rating.
In pre-filled flagons, they had Parrot & Jigger's two Katipo Pale Ales - go for their stronger Pale Ale as it's still easy to drink and more hoppy, herbaceous and spicy in the flavour.
You start to see now why the the company put so much time in rejiggering the budget numbers to make them seem like the administration wasn't dipping into Social Security funds.
It was another dagger-pierced doojigger with knobs on, very similar to the colossal alien starship that had come to the rescue of Bronson Elgar, but only about two hundred meters long. Perseus Spur
The suggestion, m'lud, was that the Ryder Cup celebrations had spilled over to St Andrews, and that Torrance's retreat to Surrey had followed a wild night in the Jigger Inn, the Old Course Hotel, and the St Andrews Bay Hotel.
Practical Money Skills for Life, a free personal financial management program run by my employer, Visa Inc., has a handy web-based travel calculator that can help you estimate travel costs and rejigger them to meet your budget needs. Jason Alderman: Trim Your Vacation Costs
Public protestations aside, she says, ‘Clinicians know privately that results can be jiggered.’
Banks get a lashing for rejiggering their business models for the Internet Age.
Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
You're saying there's some jiggery-pokery involved?
The game lasted about an hour and half, which I think is the shelf life of a jigger of Geritol.
Then as partisan control of state legislatures possibly shifts in elections over the next few years, more states can jump into the crazed fray, with lines being rejiggered willy-nilly until Census Day 2010.
The ruling party jiggered the election results to be sure they would stay in power.
Have you seen that jigger I fix the radio with?
Maybe after a jigger of scotch and a snort of ecstasy, you'll be more inclined to eat and enjoy these pretzels.
Gary jiggered across the floor, swinging his arm at the band. Chameleon
He began to suspect that some jiggery-pokery was going on.
Silicon Valley firms that fought the change are planning a variety of gimmicks to soften the blow, such as rejiggering the numbers used to estimate the value of options. Calendar
With a bit of digital jiggery-pokery on the laptop I was able to turn the interviews into a half decent radio package.
Despite such digital jiggery-pokery, Deupree and Willits don't let their software get the better of them.
But this bit of scientific jiggery-pokery leaves my mind in an even more boggled state than usual.
Many of the straight-up cocktails, such as the second of two recipes for a Dry Martini, call for adding a quarter or even a half jigger of chilled mineral water to the mix (though one is instructed to omit the water if the ice you are using is wet with meltage). Just Add iPhone and Stir: Apps for Mixologists
It was a mark of the Scottish Executive's desperation to get off the Holyrood hook that the First Minister had to rely on fiscal jiggery-pokery.
It was Margaret who came to where I was stationed by the jiggermast and told me what had occurred; and it was she who took my rifle and relieved me so that I could go aft. CHAPTER XLV
One drink is one can of beer, one glass of wine, or one jigger of hard liquor.
It isn't that spacious inside but, with a bit of jiggery-pokery I was able to fit a pushbike in the boot with the rear seats folded down.
Banks of electrical jiggery-pokery burst into life.
I mentioned some pie-in-the-sky future plan for the basement that involved ripping out this and repositioning that and rejiggering this and that, so I could install a large TV.
It is that the media has its own agenda to grab and retain viewers, and thus the contest was jiggered to suit those needs. Paul Abrams: Witches' Brew: Media's Deliberate Misuse of Polling Data Changes Elections
Before classical music is ever going to take off in digital downloads, the whole classical-recording database - this is a mammoth job, but it's got to be tackled - will have to be rejiggered.
He retrieved it quickly, but at least a jigger had been lost, and it was a very fine blend. DANSVILLE
A more personal synergy of my own: a jigger of Harvey's turns a fine chili to ambrosia.
Will it be a few months while the culture industry regroups its forces and rejiggers its ideas for new ways of exploiting a public hungrier than ever for comforting fantasies?
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said in October that rejiggering the bank's balance sheet with Operation Twist would bring longer-term rates down 0.20 percentage points. Fed Policy Delivers a Tonic for Stocks
Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs. CHAPTER XLVII
It is sad that the taint of financial jiggery-pokery should besmirch Salmond's image as he leaves office, and very unfair.
There's more technical jiggery-pokery in his next movie, a cartoon/live action version of the old Looney Tunes cartoons.
Washington-based tax expert Ken Klies predicts that once Congress acts, the IRS quickly will rejigger the withholding tables so taxpayers recover the earlier higher withholdings. Bush Tax Cuts' Future Up To Obama
More evidence that the warming trend stalled a decade ago CONTRARY TO ALL THE SKY IS FALLING MODELS and for which they better hurry up and rejigger. Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside
I've jiggered my knee, by the way - no, please, no sympathy - and it really hurts.
Officials considered a range of actions—which included setting numerical targets for inflation and unemployment, rejiggering their holdings of Treasury securities and trying to push already-low short-term interest rates a little closer to zero, all with the purpose of boosting markets and economic growth. Economy Deeply Divides Fed
The tiny mite called by the natives jigger and redbug is more annoying than the wood-tick, one reason being that there are so many more of him. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
“Ay, and get the credit of having done him — as may be the case with, yourself, friend — for he had some two or three hoggs about him” — “You know you took the last rap from his breeches-pocket not an hour ago,” expostulated the poor convalescent — “But help me to take the body out of the bed, and I will not tell the jigger-dubber that you have been beforehand with him.” The Surgeon's Daughter
Then he came slowly up, and 'jiggered' savagely at the line. Angling Sketches
At home in Chelsea his black shantung pyjamas would be laid out, the evening papers and the Book Collector spread on his night table, and the digestive biscuits and Karlsbad plums, a bottle of San Pellegrino, a jigger of Strathisla.
It's since my shoulder got painfully and extremely jiggered, six years ago.
‘It'd take a lot of jiggering about and testing,’ the PFY warns.
Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of the poop and across the main deck to the mizzenmast. CHAPTER XLIV
By adding the dye in portions this difficulty is overcome and more level shades are obtained; it is met with in all cases of jigger dyeing, but it is most common in dyeing cotton or wool with basic dyes like magenta, auramine, methyl violet or brilliant green, and in dyeing wool with acid dyes like acid green, formyl violets, azo scarlet, or acid yellow. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
Sceptics, and there are always a few, suspect a bit of jiggery-pokery and claim that nothing is ever quite what it seems.
The Prize is done but I'm jiggered if I can fathom the connection with the clues referred to in the special instructions. Cryptic crossword No 25,240
I scoffed, and not just because he would come at a hefty price tag that would totally blow away the City's contention that this rejiggering is based on REASONS OF ECONOMY -- that is, it should cost less to implement than the current arrangements. Policing Plainfield: Santiago to replace Santiago?
This new information has rejiggered some assumptions about the late 1990s’ economy.
The fix is quite tricky, because Madame's people seem to've anticipated some kind of jiggery-pokery among the philoprogenitive. The Golden Torc
Use a jigger or similar device to ensure that the amount of alcohol is consistent.
Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me.
Excessive energy has also been spent in rejiggering the editorial pages - another aspect of the paper that seems to have little to do with its future.
My only gripe, and who am I to cavil at Shakespeare, is that Pacino and Irons do such a good job that the jiggery pokery at the end about rings and sworn faithfulness seems an irritant.
As I write these words, I know that I could instead, with but the slightest rejiggering of mouse and keys, watch "South Park," juice up with some mixed martial arts on TV, read the latest Oliver Sacks article in the New Yorker, elbow in among my tweeps on Twitter, hurl angry birds on my smartphone, listen to and watch! Masters of Distraction
While analysts are projecting a modest profit for 2011 — the airline doesn't offer guidance — American's recovery hinges on leveraging expanded alliances with overseas partners, rejiggering its domestic network and securing new deals with labor and third-party ticket sellers. AMR Plans for Flat Profits
He held in his hand a small silver jigger, similar to the kind bartenders use to measure liquid toalache into their patrons ' cups. THE BROKEN GOD
That didn't stop them from paying $1.63 billion this week for Overture, a company whose specialty is selling the ability to jigger search results.
Simulation indicates that effective control of porosity in the jigger can be achieved via this system.
Why does that require ‘work’, unless there's some jiggery-pokery going on to ensure that the chart doesn't actually reflect the real numbers?
How long can I do this sort of jiggery-pokery?
He began to suspect that some jiggery-pokery had been going on.
This widespread myth has its origin in the southern states where pests with similar names such as jigger flea or the chigoes do attack by burrowing under skin.
However, they only managed to conjure this up by jiggery-pokery.
The runway was brimming with cocooning camel mohair sweaters, balmacaan and chesterfield coats and anuraks rejiggered with just enough newness to keep them fresh. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The jiggermast, a huge cylinder of hollow steel that perforated the apartment through deck above and floor beneath, was hideously vocal with the storm. CHAPTER XXXIII
Whenever we went out we both wore hats, and also shoes, indoors and out, so that we did not suffer from jiggers.
Require the use of jiggers or pre-measured dispensing systems, and buy high-quality shot glasses with pour lines marked on them.
But they've been rejiggered over time into orderly crystal patterns linked by superstrong chemical bonds.
We combat disease, we keep out the weather, we grow more crops, and we can jigger with our social arrangements as well.
It's since my shoulder got painfully and extremely jiggered, six years ago.
But, to suggest that making drinks using a jigger is the only way, and that it is more precise, is a completely false notion. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
Machines called jiggers and jolleys are used to make tableware in ceramics factories.
Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
No matter how I jigger and poke this test, I can't make it say I'll live until 100.
The user (ME) could pre-set all the button doolie-majiggers (Gentle - Fluffy Loo). Haloaskew Diary Entry
The ruling party jiggered the election results to be sure they would stay in power.
Margaret was in high spirits, and her laughter vied with the clang of the jiggermast. CHAPTER XXXIII
Underscoring their eccentricity and quirky jiggery-pokery is an ability to crack out a memorable pop melody.
Re-jig is short for rejigger which according to Merriam-Webster's means to alter or rearrange. Report: Obama Adviser Calls Hillary A "Monster"
With the clarity of hindsight, this sort of jiggery-pokery now seems worryingly typical of WorldCom's way of doing business.
This will not only convince your superiors, but it will also help you rejigger your thought processes.
I have to think your day would suck if you stole (sorry, "reworked") ostensibly factual stuff only to find out the supposedly millennium-old secret society at the very heart of your rejiggered story was, as Miller says, "the invention, in the 1950s, of a man ... who had a history of fraud, embezzlement and membership in ultra-conservative, quasi-mystical and virulently anti-Semitic Catholic groups. Davis Sweet: What, Me Da Vinci?
Mr. Starr notes that the Weekly Standard was happy to rejigger its online set-up to accommodate the request. A Maecenas for the Internet Age
That means that my assistant holds all of my calls and rejiggers my schedule, canceling anything that isn't a priority.
With a working width of 4.5 meters, the HT jigger is the largest such dyeing unit installed in Italy.
I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over at the horror of the liquid landing on his stomach.
For me Chapman has always occupied that rather odd little area into which we can also fit the late John Martyn, as well as the frabjous Mr. Richard Thompson -- their music is a sweeping blend of folk, blues, jazz, and electrical bumjiggery topped by rather weary, booze-and-fag soaked voices. Two ounces of black plastic with a hole in the middle
And I do know that I saw Mr. Pike take shelter behind the steel jiggermast. CHAPTER XLII
This presidential and congressional jiggery-pokery is the height of public dishonesty.
I used to think it was to guard against scorpions or other stinging insects, but realised now that it was to prevent jigger attacks.
If you must rely on a home remedy, the best is a jigger of pickle juice.
Concocting a satisfying Christmas mystery is as tricky as making good eggnog: you want a jigger of low-proof danger to mix smoothly with a measure of sweet deliverance. All Through The Night
The latest new wrinkle in ESPN's rejiggered baseball coverage: Orel Hershiser joins Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on its marquee Sunday night games. Adding Hershiser to Sunday nights among ESPN's baseball changes
I pulled two of the tripping-lines, and two of the contraptions exploded into light and noise and at the same time ran automatically down the jigger-trysail-stays, and automatically fetched up at the ends of their lines. CHAPTER XLVII
Again, I just want to swallow these acquisitions and kind of rejigger our whole program including the HBP and the single well laterals before I give you an exit rate. Hess CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha
To suggest that making drinks using a jigger is the only way, and that it is more precise, is a completely false notion. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
Although tonight I might well go back over my outline for my last Clone Wars novel and rejigger the chronology. Gearing up again ...
But public policy in this country has been jiggered to favor capital over labor.
Personally, my priorities got rejiggered a few years ago.
Various other names such as chigger-flea, sand-flea, jigger, chigger are also applied to this insect as well as to a minute red mite that burrows into the skin in much the same way as the female of the flea. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Cathy's an ace with the computer and knows how to jigger the DNA analyser database to delete the log entry for a test run.

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