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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 5 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIG , apparently an onomatopoeic word for -any See also:

light whirling See also:object, and so used of a See also:top, as in See also:Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, v. i. 7o (" Goe See also:whip thy gigge "), or of a revolving lure made of feathers for snaring birds. The word is now chiefly used of a light two-wheeled See also:cart or See also:carriage for one See also:horse, and of a narrow, light, See also:ship's See also:boat for oars or sails, and also of a See also:clinker-built See also:rowing-boat used for rowing on the See also:Thames. " Gig " is further applied, in See also:mining, to a wooden chamber or See also:box divided in the centre and used to draw miners up and down a See also:pit or See also:shaft, and to a textile See also:machine, the " gig-See also:mill " or " gigging machine," which raises the See also:nap on See also:cloth by means of teazels. A " gig " or " See also:fish-gig " (properly " fiz-gig," possibly an See also:adaptation of Span. fisga, See also:harpoon) is an See also:instrument used for spearing fish.

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