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Look up: gig

  1. Gig
    A sporting two-wheeled vehicle, deemed too high off the ground for safe pleasure driving, often used to exercise a trotting horse.
    Found on http://www.antiquetoys.com/glossary.html

  2. GIG
    Gigatype / Gigahertz, details ...
    Found on http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/g/index.

  3. gig
    [n] - a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies 2. [n] - long and light rowing boat 3. [n] - tender that is a light ship`s boat 4. [n] - small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage 5. [n] - a booking for musicians
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Gig
    Gig (jĭg or gĭg) noun [ Confer Old French gigue . See Jig , noun ] A fiddle. [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/26

  5. Gig
    Gig (gĭg) transitive verb [ Prob. from Latin gignere to beget.] To engender. [ Obsolete] Dryden.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/26

  6. Gig
    Gig noun A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/26

  7. Gig
    Gig transitive verb To fish with a gig.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/26

  8. Gig
    Gig noun [ Middle English gigge . Confer Giglot .] A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/26

  9. Gig
    Gig noun [ Confer Icelandic gīgja fiddle, Middle High German gīge , German geige , Icelandic geiga to take a wrong direction, rove at random, and English jig .] 1. A top or whirligig; any little ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/26

  10. gig
    To fish with a gig. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. gig
    noun a booking for musicians; `they played a gig in New Jersey`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. gig
    noun small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. gig
    noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. Gig
    • (n.) A fiddle. • (v. t.) To engender. • (n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth. • (n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the cap...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. gig
    any of several members of a class of light, open, two-wheeled, one-horse carriages, popular in France, England, and America. The gig, which first ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/31

  16. Gig
    Gig is slang for a performance by an entertainer, usually by a musician.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  17. Gig
    Gig is slang for a performance by an entertainer, usually by a musician.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  18. gig
    gigabyte
    Found on http://foldoc.org/gig

  19. gig
    • long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
    • an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
    • a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
    • tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
    • small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood<...
      Found on

    • gig
      an informal contraction of the gigabyte (GB) common in computer science, especially as a unit of storage capacity.
      Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.

    • Gig
      A gig is a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a single horse.
      Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

    • Gig
      A gig is a whipping top, made in the form of a 'V'. Gigs were popular children's toys before the discovery of electricity.
      Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

    • gig
      two-wheeled, one horse carriage.
      Found on http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.h

    • gig
      small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood.
      Found on http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/glossary.cfm

    • Gig
      (carriage) A `gig`, also called `chair` or `chaise`, is a light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one horse. Description: Gigs travelling at night would normally carry two oil lamps with thick glass, known as gig-lamps. Gig carts are constructed with the driver`s seat sitting higher than the...
      Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig



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