Also 7–8 jogg. [f. JOG v.]
1. The act of jogging a thing or person (see JOG v. 1, 2); a shake; a slight push; a nudge.
1635. Quarles, Embl., IV. iv. (1718), 202. I have none to guide me With the least jog.
1693. Evelyn, Refl. Agric., xviii. 69, in De la Quint. Compl. Gard. To pull up the Weight, and give a little Jog to the Pendulum.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 330. A little breeze of wind … which … gave them a kind of a Jog on their way towards the shore.
1755. Ramsay, To James Clerk, 72. Should dreary care then stunt my muse, And gar me aft her jogg refuse?
1881. Besant & Rice, Chapl. of Fleet, I. xii. The man Roger gave the dazed bridegroom a jog in the ribs.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 20 Feb., 1/2. The perpendicular jog usually experienced in dog-carts … and also the side-to-side jog due to a horse with each step pulling first against one trace, then against the other.
2. a. The act of jogging or moving mechanically up and down. b. The act of jogging along (see JOG v. 4); a slow measured walk or trot; also transf., e.g., of the rhythm of verse.
1611. Cotgr., Cahot, the iumpe, hop, or iog of a coach, &c., in a rugged, or vneuen, way.
16[?]. in W. Blundell, Crosby Rec., 135. Sir Humphrey Stapleton … hath hit very right of the jog of an English style in his version of ‘Strada.’
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., V. xxv. (1713), 483. Not caring to bespatter others in this high jogg, as he himself was finely bespattered from others.
1889. Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xlviii. A carriage … was coming along with the familiar jog of a hack carriage which is paid for at so much an hour.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 319. The slow, hopeless, leg-weary jog to which most of the horses … had long been reduced.
