Jig

Machinery . a plate, box, or open frame for holding work and for guiding a machine tool to the work, used esp. for locating and spacing drilled holes; fixture.

Angling . any of several devices or lures, esp. a hook or gang of hooks weighted with metal and dressed with hair, feathers, etc., for jerking up and down in or drawing through the water to attract fish.

Mining . an apparatus for washing coal or separating ore from gangue by shaking and washing.

a cloth-dyeing machine in which the material, guided by rollers, is passed at full width through a dye solution in an open vat.

to treat, cut, produce, etc., with a jig.

to use a jig.

to fish with a jig.

noun

artifice , deception , device , dodge , feint , gimmick , imposture , maneuver , ploy , ruse , sleight , stratagem , subterfuge , wile