Meanings
plural bunt jiggers
- nauticalUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: someone or something that jigs bunts.
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Farewell, then, to the gallant old Indiaman, with her hammock nettings, bunt jiggers, rolling tackles, jeers, gammon lashings, bentinck shrouds, and cat harpings, dear to sailors' hearts; and good-bye to her sailors, too, sons of the men who fought in the victorious fleets of Nelson, fellows who drank gunpowder in their rum before stripping to battle with the enemy, who could stand triced up by the thumbs and take their four-and-twenty of rawhide on the naked back without wetting an eyelash.
1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869, Chapter 2
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bunt jigger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunt%20jigger
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