jig vs pluck

jig

verb
  • To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. 

  • To move briskly, especially as a dance. 

  • To sing to the tune of a jig. 

  • To fish with a jig. 

  • To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. 

  • To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine. 

  • To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. 

noun
  • A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body. 

  • A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team. 

  • A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue. 

  • An apparatus or machine for jigging ore. 

  • A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig. 

  • A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others. 

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

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