joggle

present singular third person joggles · participle present joggling · participle past joggled · past joggled

1. transitiveTo shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

   Little Elephant sighed because he felt ready to burst and he didn't see how he could eat any pudding, and he'd been waiting all day for that pudding. So he got up and trotted around the table ten times to joggle down his turkey. He must make room for the Christmas pudding!

   1938, Heluiz Chandler Washburne, Little Elephant's Christmas

2. intransitiveTo shake or totter; to slip out of place.

plural joggles

1. engineeringA step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
2. architectureA notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.

present singular third person joggles · participle present joggling · participle past joggled · past joggled

1. transitivearchitectureTo join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.

   The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

   1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture

present singular third person joggles · participle present joggling · participle past joggled · past joggled

1. To jog or run while juggling.