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Lively Irish dance

By Daniel Lopez
•A light, brisk musical movement.•A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.•A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.•A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.•A small machine or handy tool•A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.•An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.•To sing to the tune of a jig.•To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.•To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.•To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.•To dance a jig; to skip about.