Definition of gig

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Gig (n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

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Tilbury :: Tilbury (n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover..
Gulge :: Gulge (n.) See Gige.
Chair :: Chair (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig..
Agave :: Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses..
Lambert Pine :: Lambert pine () The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States..
Fishgig :: Fishgig (n.) A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.
Puffball :: Puffball (n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin..
Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses..
Cackle :: Cackle (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle..
Camarasaurus :: Camarasaurus (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae..
Dynastidan :: Dynastidan (n.) One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length..
Gigget :: Gigget (n.) Same as Gigot.
Nereocystis :: Nereocystis (n.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
Gigantesque :: Gigantesque (a.) Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
Aepyornis :: Aepyornis (n.) A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.
Iguanodon :: Iguanodon (n.) A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix..
Colossus :: Colossus (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes..
Gargantuan :: Gargantuan (a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate..
Giggot :: Giggot (n.) See Gigot.
Giggyng :: Giggyng (n.) The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield.
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