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third-person singular simple present joggles, present participle joggling, simple past and past participle joggled
(transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog. quotations examples
Little Elephant sighed because he felt ready to burst and he didn't see how he could eat any pudding, and he'd been waiting all day for that pudding. So he got up and trotted around the table ten times to joggle down his turkey. He must make room for the Christmas pudding!
1938, Heluiz Chandler Washburne, Little Elephant's Christmas
(intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place. examples
plural joggles
(engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends. examples
(architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping. examples
(architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel. quotations examples
The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
To jog or run while juggling. examples