Definition of gig

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Gig (n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth..

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Geoduck :: Geoduck (n.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food..
Conch :: Conch (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo..
Suzerain :: Suwarrow (n.) The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.
Wellingtonia :: Wellingtonia (n.) A name given to the big trees (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia..
Cackle :: Cackle (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle..
Tatou :: Tatou (n.) The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves..
Baobab :: Baobab (n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia..
Fizgig :: Fizgig (n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes..
Gigerium :: Gigerium (n.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds..
Giglot :: Giglot (a.) Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton.
Gigantean :: Gigantean (a.) Like a giant; mighty; gigantic.
Lancewood :: Lancewood (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae)..
Sequoiene :: Sequoiene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California big tree (Sequoia gigantea)..
Gigeria :: Gigeria (pl. ) of Gigeriu.
Gargantuan :: Gargantuan (a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate..
Dennet :: Dennet (n.) A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig..
Gig :: Gig (n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
Toxodon :: Toxodon (n.) A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta..
Cephaloptera :: Cephaloptera (n.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton..
Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..
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