DEFINITION
GIG:
• (n.) A fiddle.
• (v. t.) To engender.
• (n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
• (v. t.) To fish with a gig.
• (n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
• (n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in
play.
• (n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse;
a kind of chaise.
• (n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to
be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as,
the captain's gig.
• (n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for
teaseling woolen cloth.