Word Meanings - JOGGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel. The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts. Gwilt. (more info) Etym: 1. To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake

Additional info about word: JOGGLE

To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel. The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts. Gwilt. (more info) Etym: 1. To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

Related words: (words related to JOGGLE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DOWEL
  1. A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. 2. A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• POSTSCRIPTED
  Having a postscript; added in a postscript. J. Q. Adams.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• POSTSCAPULA
  The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• SLIDE
  To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. 7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer. With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• SLIDDER
  To slide with interruption. Dryden.
• SLIDING
  1. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. 2. Slippery; elusory. That sliding science hath me made so bare. Chaucer. Sliding friction , the resistance one body meets with in sliding along the surface of another, as distinguished
• POSTSCRIBE
  To make a postscript. T. Adams.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.