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JOG, v.t. [Eng. shock, shake.] To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to give notice or excite attention by a slight push.
JOG, v.i. To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot.
JOG, n. A push; a slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention. When your friend falls asleep at church, give him a jog.
To push or shake with the elbow or hand;
to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite
one's attention, or to warn.
Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do
you see Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to
call the attention of; as, to jog the memory.
To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a
horse. See Jog,
To move by jogs or
small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely,
or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with
over.
Jog on, jog on, the footpath way. Shak. So hung his destiny, never to rot, The good old ways our sires jogged safely over. R. Browning. A
slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken
attention; a push; a jolt.
To give them by turns an invisible jog. Swift. A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction;
hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the
direction of a line or the surface of a plane.
Glanvill.
Jog trot, a slow, regular, jolting gait; hence, a routine habit or method, persistently adhered to. T. Hook. | ||||||||