A fork of Rural Dictionary
Slang term for a modern day theodolite, total station as used by land surveyors. It stands mounted on top of a tripod.
The Surveyor's Assistant stands behind the jigger.
A word which in the English Language has 28 meanings as seen on QI. the British Comedy panel show which is Quite Interesting
including
It is a measuring device (a jigger of rum), a handcar, a sail, a small weight, a snooker rest, a type of flea, a prison cell, a boot-sole polisher, an old-looking person, a distillery, a penis, a copper's knife, a potter's wheel, a back passage (allyway or anus, a lathe, a woman's coat, a sieve, a dancer, a pulley, a door, a thingummy, a golf club, a ouija board, a policeman, and a vagina.
Liverpool that jigger (allyway) is too dark and scary.
I had my finger in her jigger vagina
A kid's go cart made from a scaffold plank, some bits of wood (axles), a piece of rope (steering) and a set of pram wheels (preferably 'Silver Cross'). The term was certainly used in the Tottenham area of N.London during the late 60s.
'Look at those old pram wheels. They'd be great for a jigger'.