1708. Hall, Memoirs etc., s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal. s.v.
5. (old).—A secret still. Jigger-stuff = illicitly distilled spirits;
jigger-worker = a vendor of the same. Hence, also, a drink of whiskey.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Jigger-dubber.... The jigger is
a private still.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. etc. i. 429. Two, and sometimes three,
female lace-sellers are also ‘jigger-workers.’ They carry about
their persons pint bladders of ‘stuff,’ or ‘jigger-stuff’ (spirit
made at an illicit still). ‘I used to supply them with it until
lately,’ one street-trader told me, ‘from a friend that kept a
‘jigger,’ and a tidy sale some of them had.’
1853. Diogenes, ii. 199. Jigger-gin will kill body and brain faster
than arrack punch or Sangaree.
1886. Judy, 4 August, p. 58. He imbibed stupendous quantities of
jiggered gin, dog’s nose, and Paddy’s eye-water.
6. (billiards).—The ‘bridge’ or ‘rest’ for the cue when a ball is
beyond arm’s length.