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jig ((v.)) earlier, spelled gig 
1 † v. Nfld fish with a jigger (def. 1).
See also: jigger (def. 1)
- 1859 It [squid] is made no use of except for bait; and as it maintains itself in deeper water than the capelin, instead of nets being used to take it, it is jigged.
- 1958 After jigging a few small, ordinary fish, young Bob's jigger jabbed into "something real big". . . .
- 1965 On each fish day in spring and summer the men go out in their small boats to net, trap, jig, and trawl capelin, cod, and herring.
2 v. fish with a jig.
See also: jig ((n.))
- 1939 . . . we cut a hole in the ice and sat on a seat of boughs and jigged with a hook baited with salt pork.
- 1960 An Indian woman, iron-grey hair in braids, her dress a checkerboard of blue and yellow, was jigging for sea bass.
- 1859 It [squid] is made no use of except for bait; and as it maintains itself in deeper water than the capelin, instead of nets being used to take it, it is jigged.