GIGGER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Tends machine that raises and sets direction of fiber on surface of woolen cloth, imparting soft and lofty hand to cloth: Mounts roll of cloth on shaft at feed-end of machine, using hoist. Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine. Turns handwheels to raise or lower contact rollers that press cloth against gigging cylinder to control amount of nap. Turns valves to admit water into wet-out boxes. Starts machine and processes cloth back and forth through machine until nap has been raised according to specifications. Relaxes pressure on contact rollers and processes cloth through machine to set direction of nap. Doffs rolls of cloth from delivery end of machine. May tend machine equipped with steaming roller rather than wet-out boxes and be designated Steam Gigger (textile). (references)
Slang in 1811	GIGGER. A latch, or door. Dub the gigger; open the door. Gigger dubber; the turnkey of a jaol. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Name Usage Frequency: GIGGER

Frequency of Internet Keywords: GIGGER

Anagrams: GIGGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-i-r"
	-2 letters: grig.
	-3 letters: egg, erg, gie, gig, ire, reg, rei, rig.
	-4 letters: er, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-i-r"
	+1 letter: giggler.
	+2 letters: gigglers, gigglier, gogglier, groggier.
	+3 letters: beggaring, buggering, daggering, engorging, gingering, groggiest, jiggering, regauging, regorging, renigging, repegging, rerigging, retagging, saggering.
	+4 letters: aggressing, aggrieving, bedrugging, begrudging, earwigging, gangrening, groggeries, grogginess, reengaging, rejuggling, sniggering, staggering, swaggering, triggering.
	+5 letters: aggregating, aggregation, aggregative, bedraggling, rejiggering, ruggedizing, segregating.
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Alternative Orthography: GIGGER

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Gigger	Last name	100	72,602
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Specialty Definition: GIGGER

Expression	Frequency per Day
gigger	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.