Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Mining), Prov. Eng. Same as
sicker .
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Examples
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* I think they must have missed the zigger murder, the stealing of the storm, the flood and near drowning, a father's abuse of his young son, the marriage proposal and its rejection...all of which happened in the first 100 pages!
The Last Stormlord... Glenda Larke 2010
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Glenda, whatever you do don't let them drop the jasper into the zigger water...
Don't Forget the Dog! Glenda Larke 2008
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"But the Redduner left his zigger cage on the pede..." may be a crucial incident in the tale, but it is going to mean absolutely nothing to anyone out of context.
Archive 2007-03-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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If it hadn't been for that my snickersee would have gone zigger-zagging down through the dark black water disturbing the little jellyfish and lighting the way for a snip, snap, swallow, all's fish that comes to their net style, to go inside some shark.
Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870
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"That was better, but it was a tight job going all round a corner like a zigger-me-zag, as you calls it, or a furnace chimney; and as I scrouged down with my eyes shut, and the sand and stones scuttling down after me,
Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden George Manville Fenn 1870
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