[app. dim. or freq. of JOG v.: but found earlier in our quots. Cf. SHOGGLE.] To jog continuously or repeatedly.
1. trans. To shake to and fro, as by repeated jerks: to cause to move from side to side.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. vii. 55. The ilk schaft stak in hys cors anone: Pallas it jogglyt, and furth drew in hy.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 89. Guts of mounten yrented From roote vp hee iogleth.
1640. Wilkins, New Planet, VIII. (1707), 244. The Earth is firm and stable from all such Motions whereby it is joggled or uncertainly shaken.
1738. Wheler, in Phil. Trans., XLI. 108. Striking or jogling the Vessel would make them subside.
1837. Brewster, Magnet., 169. Something chanced to joggle the magnets … and they instantly rushed together.
1853. Mrs. Butler, in Recoll. G. Butler, v. (1892), 87. If he was long in replying I drove the dog-cart over some lumps on the roadside, and this joggled the answers out of him.
2. intr. To move to and fro with a succession of short jerky movements; to shake or rock about, as something loose or unsteady; dial. to jog along.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., x. § 3. 178. That they may neither joggle nor tremble in working.
1706. Phil. Trans., XXV. 2253. That the Wheel may turn about upon the Pin … tight to the Ruler without joggling.
1825. Brockett, Joggle, to shake, to totter.
1869. Mrs. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, xx. 239. My grandmother’s broad shoulders joggling with a secret laugh.
1883. Miss Broughton, Belinda, I. iii. 37. They are … joggling tranquilly along in the sunshine.
Hence Joggling vbl. sb.1 and ppl. a. Joggling-board: see quot. 1883; joggling-table, a machine in which ore is made to separate according to its specific weight, by the joggling or shaking of an inclined table on which it is spread.
1828. Moir, Mansie Wauch, xiii. (1849), 87. Wearied with the joggling of the cart.
1860. Russell, Diary India, II. i. 7. Camels slung along at their utmost joggling stride.
1883. C. F. Smith, Southernisms, in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc., 50. Joggle, ‘to shake up and down or move up and down on a plank suspended between supports at each end.’.. Joggling is a favorite amusement of children in South Carolina, and the joggling-board on the front piazza is a common sight.
