jiggerer
(ˈdʒɪgərə(r))
[f. jigger n.1 5 + -er1.]
One who uses or works with a jigger (in various trades).
| 1881 Instructions to Census Clerks (1885) 84 Coal Miner{ddd}Loader, Jiggerer, Trammer, Hooker-on. Ibid. 88 China, Porcelain, Manufacture:..Jigger or Gigger Turner, Jiggerer. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §043 Jigger, jigger boy, jiggerer..attaches or detaches tubs, singly or in pairs, to or from endless rope, by placing rope in fork of ‘jigger’, or double crook, in socket at one side or end of tubs. Ibid. §105 Jigger, jiggerer, makes flat-ware such as plates, saucers; presses bat of clay on top of mould, already revolving on vertical spindle. 1931 W. H. Warburton Hist. Trade Union Organization in Potteries xi. 205 By this scheme his hollow-ware pressers would employ female assistants in the same way as did his hollow-ware jiggerers and ‘jolliers’. |