jigsawn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɪɡsɔː/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɪɡˌsɔ/,

/ˈdʒɪɡˌsɑ/

Forms: Also 1800s gig-saw, 1900s zigsaw, zigzaw, 1900s– jigsaw.

Etymology: < jig v. + saw n.¹

Originally U.S.

a. Frequently in form jig-saw. A vertically reciprocating saw driven by a crank, mounted in various different ways. Also attributive, of a type of architectural decoration using fretwork patterns.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > jig-saw

jigsaw1873

jigger-saw1888

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > fretwork

fretized1579

jigsaw1873

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. 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 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gig-saw, a thin saw to which a rapid vertical reciprocation is imparted, and which is adapted for sawing scrolls, frets, etc.

1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 21 The jig-saw days, when it behoved respectability to use unlovely turned rails and pierced gable-ends.

1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude iii. 86 The room is one of those big, misproportioned dining rooms that are found in the large, jigsaw country houses scattered around the country as a result of the rural taste for grandeur in the eighties.

1966 M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design 245 Jigsaw detail. a cutout or fretwork design made with a jigsaw. It was used for the enhancement of buildings of the mid and late 19th century. The bargework was often made with a jigsaw. The ‘gingerbread’ or ‘steamboat Gothic’, late Victorian period was jigsaw work in its most aggravated form.

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 274 Salad-forks, for example, are cut without previous marking by a hand jig-saw.

b. In full, jigsaw puzzle. A puzzle formed by cutting into small irregular pieces (originally with a jig-saw) a picture mounted on a sheet of wood, cardboard, or the like. (Now the usual sense.) So jigsaw map. Also transferred and figurative.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > jig-saw puzzle

jigsaw puzzle1909

1909 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 4/4 A jigsaw map of England.

1909 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 4/4 These jigsaw geography puzzles should be introduced into all the Council schools in London.

1910 Punch 9 Mar. 172 (caption) What if the jig-saw epidemic spreads?

1912 H. Maxwell Early Chron. Scotl. I. 16 One of those zigzaw puzzles which had a fleeting vogue two or three years ago.

1915 Morning Post 15 Apr. 2/4 A kind of verbal jig-saw.

1919 E. Shackleton South i. 11 Pack-ice might be described as a gigantic and interminable jigsaw-puzzle devised by nature.

1919 D. Wyllarde Holiday Husb. xiii. 167 As neatly as if she had found the right pieces of a zigsaw puzzle.

1920 Punch 22 Sept. 235/1 The comparatively simple task of piecing together the verse jigsaws.

1921 Spectator 16 Apr. 489/2 Minds, grown weary of other ‘jig-saws’.

1926 G. W. Deeping Sorrell & Son vii. 68 Kit played a game of his own with the town, treating it as a sort of jig-saw puzzle.

1935 W. S. Maugham Don Fernando x. 213 The various particulars fit like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle.

1947 People 22 June 4/3 How can this jigsaw be pieced together? Many of the facts are now known as a result of most painstaking police inquiries.

1955 A. Huxley Let. 25 Sept. (1969) 766 All this jigsaw work entailed in shaping a play for stage production is extremely boring.

1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 57 Constructional tasks which embrace spatial concepts include the assembling of jigsaw puzzles, a game which may not be easy for some of these dyslexics.

1972 Oxf. Times 11 Aug. 3 As the excavation proceeds more and more tiny pieces of the archaeological jigsaw puzzle will be discovered.

1974 G. Markstein Cooler xl. 149 Sylvia was turning into the little jigsaw piece that often remained the hardest one to find.

Derivatives

jigsaw v. (transitive) to cut or shape with a jig-saw; also, to fit together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Frequently figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > shaping tool

behewc1314

turn?c1335

chisel1517

hew1617

axe1700

rout1818

block1831

swage1831

jigsaw1873

router1890

hot-press1947

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > saw > in specific manner or with specific saw

rip1532

whip-saw1842

buck1870

jigsaw1873

ripsaw1881

mill1886

saw-kerf1886

quarter-saw1890

buzz1925

plain saw1951

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 128 What may be said of jig-sawing need not consume much space here.

1883 W. D. Howells Woman's Reason (new ed.) I. lx. 185 Designs jig-sawed out of white-wood.

1938 Times 2 Feb. 13/4 Jig-sawing is one of the few pastimes in which bludgeoning methods definitely do not pay.

1963 Harper's Bazaar Jan. 29/3 It taxed all Miss Molesworth's expertise to jigsaw the requirements into a pleasing ensemble.

1966 Punch 18 May 720 I've often cut his articles into line sentences, mixed them up, and tried to jigsaw them together, a most difficult thing to do until you've caught the drift of his mind.

1967 Listener 9 Feb. 207/3 The interviews through which Lowry's character was jigsawed together were wholly fascinating.

1973 Guardian 27 Feb. 11/5 We..jig-sawed our bits together into one consecutive piece, typing on maddening French machines.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jigsaw
释义	jigsawn. Brit. /ˈdʒɪɡsɔː/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪɡˌsɔ/, /ˈdʒɪɡˌsɑ/ Forms: Also 1800s gig-saw, 1900s zigsaw, zigzaw, 1900s– jigsaw. Etymology: < jig v. + saw n.¹ Originally U.S. a. Frequently in form jig-saw. A vertically reciprocating saw driven by a crank, mounted in various different ways. Also attributive, of a type of architectural decoration using fretwork patterns. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > jig-saw jigsaw1873 jigger-saw1888 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > fretwork fretized1579 jigsaw1873 1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. 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 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gig-saw, a thin saw to which a rapid vertical reciprocation is imparted, and which is adapted for sawing scrolls, frets, etc. 1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 21 The jig-saw days, when it behoved respectability to use unlovely turned rails and pierced gable-ends. 1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude iii. 86 The room is one of those big, misproportioned dining rooms that are found in the large, jigsaw country houses scattered around the country as a result of the rural taste for grandeur in the eighties. 1966 M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design 245 Jigsaw detail. a cutout or fretwork design made with a jigsaw. It was used for the enhancement of buildings of the mid and late 19th century. The bargework was often made with a jigsaw. The ‘gingerbread’ or ‘steamboat Gothic’, late Victorian period was jigsaw work in its most aggravated form. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 274 Salad-forks, for example, are cut without previous marking by a hand jig-saw. b. In full, jigsaw puzzle. A puzzle formed by cutting into small irregular pieces (originally with a jig-saw) a picture mounted on a sheet of wood, cardboard, or the like. (Now the usual sense.) So jigsaw map. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > jig-saw puzzle jigsaw puzzle1909 1909 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 4/4 A jigsaw map of England. 1909 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 4/4 These jigsaw geography puzzles should be introduced into all the Council schools in London. 1910 Punch 9 Mar. 172 (caption) What if the jig-saw epidemic spreads? 1912 H. Maxwell Early Chron. Scotl. I. 16 One of those zigzaw puzzles which had a fleeting vogue two or three years ago. 1915 Morning Post 15 Apr. 2/4 A kind of verbal jig-saw. 1919 E. Shackleton South i. 11 Pack-ice might be described as a gigantic and interminable jigsaw-puzzle devised by nature. 1919 D. Wyllarde Holiday Husb. xiii. 167 As neatly as if she had found the right pieces of a zigsaw puzzle. 1920 Punch 22 Sept. 235/1 The comparatively simple task of piecing together the verse jigsaws. 1921 Spectator 16 Apr. 489/2 Minds, grown weary of other ‘jig-saws’. 1926 G. W. Deeping Sorrell & Son vii. 68 Kit played a game of his own with the town, treating it as a sort of jig-saw puzzle. 1935 W. S. Maugham Don Fernando x. 213 The various particulars fit like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle. 1947 People 22 June 4/3 How can this jigsaw be pieced together? Many of the facts are now known as a result of most painstaking police inquiries. 1955 A. Huxley Let. 25 Sept. (1969) 766 All this jigsaw work entailed in shaping a play for stage production is extremely boring. 1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 57 Constructional tasks which embrace spatial concepts include the assembling of jigsaw puzzles, a game which may not be easy for some of these dyslexics. 1972 Oxf. Times 11 Aug. 3 As the excavation proceeds more and more tiny pieces of the archaeological jigsaw puzzle will be discovered. 1974 G. Markstein Cooler xl. 149 Sylvia was turning into the little jigsaw piece that often remained the hardest one to find. Derivatives jigsaw v. (transitive) to cut or shape with a jig-saw; also, to fit together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > shaping tool behewc1314 turn?c1335 chisel1517 hew1617 axe1700 rout1818 block1831 swage1831 jigsaw1873 router1890 hot-press1947 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > saw > in specific manner or with specific saw rip1532 whip-saw1842 buck1870 jigsaw1873 ripsaw1881 mill1886 saw-kerf1886 quarter-saw1890 buzz1925 plain saw1951 1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 128 What may be said of jig-sawing need not consume much space here. 1883 W. D. Howells Woman's Reason (new ed.) I. lx. 185 Designs jig-sawed out of white-wood. 1938 Times 2 Feb. 13/4 Jig-sawing is one of the few pastimes in which bludgeoning methods definitely do not pay. 1963 Harper's Bazaar Jan. 29/3 It taxed all Miss Molesworth's expertise to jigsaw the requirements into a pleasing ensemble. 1966 Punch 18 May 720 I've often cut his articles into line sentences, mixed them up, and tried to jigsaw them together, a most difficult thing to do until you've caught the drift of his mind. 1967 Listener 9 Feb. 207/3 The interviews through which Lowry's character was jigsawed together were wholly fascinating. 1973 Guardian 27 Feb. 11/5 We..jig-sawed our bits together into one consecutive piece, typing on maddening French machines. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1873
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