sb. U.S. Also gig-saw. [f. JIG v. + SAW.] A vertically reciprocating saw driven by a crank, mounted in various different ways.
1873. J. Richards, Wood-working Factories, 128. With respect to jig saws, the band saw and duplicating machines have driven the most of them out of use.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Gig-saw, a thin saw to which a rapid vertical reciprocation is imparted, and which is adapted for sawing scrolls, frets, etc.
Hence Jig-saw v. trans., to cut or shape with a jig-saw.
1873. J. Richards, Wood-working Factories, 128. What may be said of jig-sawing need not consume much space here.
1883. Howell, Woman’s Reason (Tauchn. 1884), I. 213. Designs jig-sawed out of white-wood.
