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A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.

Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.

Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.

An account or description of giants.

A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Meyrick (Ancient Armor).

The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

Same as Gigot. Cut the slaves to giggets. Beau. & Fl.

or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

One who giggles or titters.

Prone to giggling. Carlyle.

See Gigot. [Obs.] Chapman.

The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield. [Obs.] "Gigging of shields." Chaucer.

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] "O giglot fortune!" Shak.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.